Christine Hingston - artist
In Australia I am inspired by those iconic colours of blue skies, red dusty soil and hot summer days at the beach.
Unless I am away from my studio I work every day. I don’t wait for inspiration, I go to my easel and find it on a canvas.
I use many techniques and materials in my paintings including oil and acrylic paint, rust paint and charcoal, gold leaf and collage.
Some paintings happen fast and some take time and are put aside to consider and come back to at a later time.
More recently I have had the opportunity to indulge my passion for ceramics working with stone wear clay and firing in gas and soda and wood fired kilns. I love the way that my painting will inspire my ceramic and the wonderful, sometimes unexpected results in my ceramics that inspire my paintings.
I am represented by Yallingup Gallery in Yallingup, Black Stump Gallery in Broome and artopia gallery in Kununurra.
My art is my life.
What drives me to create?
A desire to be present in my own mind, my own space and my own dreams allows my hand to interpret my thoughts.
From an early age at school, I would daydream looking out of the classroom windows watching the shadows and shapes the eucalyptus leaves made on the tree trunks and the negative spaces filled with sunlight through the outstretched branches.
I was always in trouble for daydreaming.
But it is those early habits of looking and observing that has sustained my art practice.
I look and I look again at shapes, patterns and colours. I look at shadows and light and dark in nature. For me this ability to see what is around me is the greatest gift I can draw on for inspiration in my abstract and representational work.
A lifetime of dreaming has led me to a daily practice of creating. Always pushing boundaries and experimenting with new techniques and materials.
Not everything works but that is the process of making art, always moving forward and challenging myself.
I work in oil on canvas, acrylic and watercolour on paper.
I work with clay to create sculptures and glaze using may different techniques.
I embroider on fabric. I love creating lino and wood cuts and silk screen prints.
I work on my art practice every day.
I am an Australian artist working from my studio in Ubud Bali.
I am represented by three galleries in Australia and one in Bali.
My work hangs in collections throught the world.
Mark Making is always the start of any project regardless of the medium.
I am happy to share what I have learned over forty years of creating to help other artists find their own voice and enable them to turn their dreams into reality.
in 2025
I'm teaching an art retreat in Beautiful East Bali, with Anna Kwiecinska at Villa Nilaya, as part of her 'Painting by the Sea in Bali' series.
MARK-MAKING for LARGE WORKS ON PAPER is a way to learn expressionistic techniques to create a large-scale work on paper reflecting your experience of this beautiful island.
20- 27 JULY, 2025 BALI
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