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Christine O'Keeffe
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Christine
has always worked in the field of art and design. She entered Art
College at the age of sixteen where she trained originally as a potter
and then taught for a number of years before retraining as an interior
designer to run her own interiors business. More recently she qualified
and worked as a landscape architect. Despite this comprehensive association
with the design world Christine only commenced working with watercolours
ten years ago when a friend persuaded her to join her at a watercolour
workshop.
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The Hillside Croft
30 x 30cms
watercolour and ink
Price: £225
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The Burn
30 x 30cms
watercolour and ink
Price: £225 |
A Tracery of Branches
35 x 45cms
watercolour & ink
Price: £420
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Landslip by the Burn
56 x 40cms
watercolour & ink
Price: £500 |
Spring Flow
73 x 54cms
watercolour & ink
Price: £670 |
A Waterfall within a Rocky Outcrop
45 x 35cms
watercolour & ink
Price: £420
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She
approached the medium with confidence only to find watercolour
had a mind of its own. There then ensued a battle between
artist and medium which continues to rage today. Christine
admits she chose to work in watercolour as a challenge,
“There is no other medium whose delicacy and immediacy
is so diametrically opposed to my own multilinear dark and
dramatic sketching style. I felt if I could adapt the medium
to my style of work I might create watercolours that were
distinctive.”
Christine was born and brought up in London, moved to Suffolk
in her teens and has been living and working in Scotland
for the past fifteen years. She lives in a traditional croft
house near the village of Edderton, north of Inverness.
Buried deep in the countryside the house overlooks a wooded
valley to the south and has views of the Struie Hills to
the north. Christine says of her surroundings, “The
beauty of the landscape in Scotland is comparable to the
best anywhere in the world. I feel overwhelmed and inspired
by the ever changing drama, texture and colour of the scenery”.
From working full time and only being able to paint a few
days per year Christine has for the past six years practised
as a full time artist. She has exhibited, in and around
Inverness, with great success but has also exhibited in
London and Edinburgh. Her work has found its way into the
homes and work places of private collectors in as far flung
places as Australia, South Africa, Canada and America.
Christine has no intention of making another change of artistic
direction having found such a worthy adversary in the medium
of watercolour. This latest twist in a career that has seen
many changes is certainly the most challenging, is definitely
the most rewarding and will, surely be the most enduring. |
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