Chrissie lives and works in rural South Cambridgeshire. The studio is in the garden, and looks out across changing crops in the fields with the graphic lines of the tractor wheels marking out the farming story. The meadow at the back of the house, awash with cowslips early in spring. This landscape is the main inspiration for Chrissie’s work. For Chrissie, making a painting entails a harmonious partnership between the colour and the composition. She uses sketchbook studies made on location as a start for a studio painting. She also likes to work in series, and finds that the more familiar a subject becomes the more it changes and surprises. Recently she has worked on a series of Scottish works, principally because of annual visits to the Angus Glens in Scotland. A hugely different landscape but the same painting method.
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