Christine Maudy

Artists Statement

"I received my best guidance by meeting all these creators, visiting exhibitions and museums and travelling. I always knew that one day I would dedicate myself to my passion.”

For the last 20 years she has been travelling extensively to Africa, Asia and Europe.
“A journey in Africa in 1989 was the emotional shock that changed my life. I started to look at the world differently. This experience had a profound influence on my work. For the first time I had the feeling to be connected to the land. After travelling the world, we chose to live in Australia where nature is overwhelming and colours so strong and amazing that they look unreal.”

Christine is committed to abstraction. Marc Rothko, Willem De Kooning and Paul Klee ‘s work had a strong impact on her artistic education.
Her style of painting is expressive. She relies on colour and texture to convey her feelings and to make things visible.
“Colours have the power to induce emotions and feelings. They are not only about physiological perception but also about history and culture. The lastings memories of a journey in a country wether they are cultural or visual will always translate in colours for me.”

A truly contemporary artist Christine explores the major cultural, political and ecological issues and believes that is the artist’s duty to contribute in raising awareness

“I don’t try to depict reality but rather to show feelings and emotions through visual associations”.
Images originate in fragments of personal and cultural history, in responses to travel, recollection of journeys. Traces of places once visited of colours seen evolve as an introspective diary of history, times and places.

She searches colours, textures, contrasts in nature and spends a lot of time observing to extract some details that she will use as a starting point for an
abstraction. Trained as a private pilot, she has developed a sky vision that is reflected in her interpretation of landscape.

She loves experimenting, always looking for new techniques and new ideas. In her studio surrounded by nature she works almost every day and in 5 years has produced a body of work of 150 paintings.

Fluent in Italian and English as well as French Christine feels a true citizen of the world.
Christine is exhibiting regularly in Australia and started to show successfully abroad. “I need the stimulation of producing a coherent exhibition focussing on a subject or a reflexion; you can go deeper in your research and your introspection and then you have the pleasure of seeing it coming alive in front of your public.”

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