Chrissie Havers
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 followed by buttercups and swathes of cow parsley, produces a more random effect, nonetheless intriguing. This landscape is the main inspiration for Chrissie’s work.
Colour, with all its attendant properties, is the immediate element in her paintings and her approach to any subject becomes an experiment within a chosen colour system. For Chrissie however, making a painting entails a harmonious partnership between the colour and the composition. One flies loose and free, the other grounds the painting. This consideration is always present in her colourful paintings.
Chrissie uses sketchbook studies made on location as a start for a studio painting - the sketchbook a sturdy reminder of that first inspiration, a reminder of why she chose that particular place. 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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