CHRISTINA H PAUL
Figures overlap and intertwine in my most recent work. While I do a lot of figure drawing from life, the figures in my paintings evolve as I paint. It is a search to reveal the human figure as part of the world.
My impressionistic abstract work is a combination of strokes and textures and subtle shifts in color. I seek to capture a feeling or memory of a space and the shifting effect of light. The space may be obscure while others more obviously convey nature and the landscape.
In all my work I am driven by what is happening on the canvas as I apply paint and watch what might reveal itself. It is an intuitive process drawn from my years of study and practice and from memory.
BIOGRAPHY
Christina has been involved with art since college. Always finding some time to paint, she worked as a graphic designer and art director contracting and working with many notable illustrators and artists in the making of picture books and illustrated fiction. As Associate Publisher and Creative Director she managed a department of eighteen designers and art directors for 20 years at Candlewick Press (a company known for its quality books) in MA. Now living in the Buffalo NY area, she is pursuing her love of painting and all art!
Christina received a B.A. in Art from St. Elizabeth University in New Jersey. After college she lived in New York City for 12 years and, while building a career as a graphic designer, she took extension classes in painting with Manfred Schwarz at The New School and Leo Manso at NYU and the Providence Workshop. After moving to the Boston MA area in 1979, she maintained a studio at The Umbrella in Concord MA, took part in many shows and began to sell her work, also helping to manage their gallery. She studied with notable artists and teachers such as Timothy Harney at DeCordova Museum and Jakki Kaufmann at Silvermine, New Canaan, CT. Her most current mentor was William (Skip) Lawrence.
Exhibiting member, Buffalo Society of Artists
Member, Western New York Artists Group
Member, Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society
Board member, Orchard Park Chorale