INTERVIEW

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Mauro
1. How did you come to abstract painting ?

Christine
I think I would tell you how I came to painting at all. This was around 20 years ago, when a nice italian lady read my palms and said I would be an artist. This sounds kind of superstitious and believing in everything…. but since I always admired people who could paint and thought I would not be able to do it - I started.
And the abstract painting was like a necessary development. As I am a very intuitive person and painter, and I have a good view which colors, structures and forms fit together, abstracts are easy for me to paint.

Mauro
2. What is your source of inspiration ?

Christine
In the artists world inspiration could be everything.
For me it’s the color itself: I could see for example a pink and yellow ball and it would inspire me to paint pink and yellow. But of cause, when I need inspiration, I take a walk in the nature which could be forest or beach both. Love and joy will always be inspiration for me. The main point is the light and the lightness. When I am in Andalusia, where I am also living, I love the morning light, or the light on the sea which glimmers, the evening light showing itself on the white Andalusian walls and at least the lightness the sun brings to the people.

Mauro
3. When you see a work of abstract art , it sends you immediately ? The shape , color , or the manner in which it was made ?  

Christine
It is more that I feel abstract works. And first of all I love the colors ( if I love the work ),
they have to match or if not, they must give the painting an interesting exciting aspect.
What I love in abstract art is the colorplay which has to be special and different. Of cause I notice the technique and find it more or less interesting.

Mauro
4. As you have gone through this difficult period Covid , he has influenced you ? And in what manner you believe that he did it in relation to your creations ?  

Christine
This period gave me the chance to retire from my longterm profession as Natural Practitioner and Psychotherapist. And this offered means an artist more space for being creative and starting an artist career .

Mauro
5. What do you think of the digital age , do you feel comfortable ?  

Christine
For sur it has been important and useful in those lockdown situations, but, sincerely, I love to touch things, I love tangible art and I hope that the art market will not need it to be digital.
Mauro
6. Tell us about future projects.

Christine
As I am studying at a Free Artschool I hope to learn and develop more and more. I love to learn sculpture . And I am dreaming of having Solo Exhibitions all over the world. And in fact, I will have one in New York in a Gallery at Lower East Side in May 2025.