Christine Webb: Remembering Tomorrow

We are excited to present Christine Webb’s 13th exhibition at Art2Muse Gallery.

For years Christine lived between Sydney and Italy, spending five months each year painting from her studio in an elegant Renaissance building in Sansepolcro. Her interiors of familiar spaces capturing panoramic vistas of the Tuscan countryside, Parisian streetscape and urban Australia. While her Sydney paintings are infused with clear light, her Italian paintings are awash with the golden light of the Mediterranean. 

Many paintings framed within Christine’s paintings are an homage to the significant artists who have influenced her work: Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Olley and Modigliani. You will notice the skewed perspective reminiscent of Matisse and mid century modernists. 

Christine’s joyous, vibrant paintings of light and pattern are augmented with treasured objects collected from her years of travel. Although Christine’s style progresses, viewers will be familiar with her central motif of the chair, the majolica jug, and the open window. Not always but sometimes, viewers love searching for her signature, red glasses.   

“My paintings read like a diary of memories, current thoughts and past wanderings. The open window offers a fresh breeze, a calming thought. Sit at the table of cherished objects, echoes of times well spent. Frame within a frame, the reflection of a mirror, a painting, an open window pulling the viewer away as distorted shadows fall across a harmony of colour that may be a rug, a striped floorboard or a windowsill.” Christine Webb