One of the artists joining Arts on the Credit for the first time in 2016 is Christine Proctor.

Christine Proctor is inspired by nature’s overwhelming ability to create visual masterpieces. However, she feels that to replicate landscape in a lifelike, detailed copy would do the viewer an injustice and would define the vision too precisely, leaving no room for personal interpretation. By abstracting her images, Christine opens a path for the viewer’s imagination.

Christine works from memory to paint special places she has experienced and imagined. She begins the work with a conceptual ‘point of entry’, moving into an active dialogue with the work at an intuitive level. She sees phenomena in strong masses: precise details vanish, everything trivial disappears, buildings become liberated shapes, anthropomorphic in nature, and fields, paths and skies are captured when nature is at her most magnificent: broad sweeping landscapes with awesome suns and clouds. . By simplifying the landscape into uncluttered shapes, Christine invites the viewer to pause and reflect and complete the painting with their own mental image and worldview.

Christine is particularly interested in the surface of the work, building the works with multiple layers of thick paint, using a variety of tools and scrapers for both paint application and removal. This method produces an undulating surface texture with spontaneous dynamic colours peeping through at many levels. By drawing little vignettes into the surface of the wet paint she further adds to the mystery of her work.

More information about Christine Proctor and her work can be found at www.christineproctor.ca