Christine O’Reilly Wilson
My starting point for creating a painting will always be to flood the blank canvas with vibrant colour. This colour is applied in thin translucent layers that build up the intensity and opaque appearance of the base layer. Contrasting colours are applied in stages. Paint is brushed, sponged, poured, and dripped down the surface. I will then soak areas of freshly applied paint, scrap into the surface to soar and reveal what is beneath thus giving a history to the construction of the image .The physical interaction with the paint on canvas is a vital method of communicating my ideas. I will become so absorbed in the creative working process that my conscious and unconscious intellect seeps into the piece of work. The whole process is an attempt to relate the human condition by means of the pure aesthetics of abstract colour.
Foundation Art and Design 1993
BA(Hons) Fine Art John Moores University 1996
MA Fine Art University of Liverpool 1998
North West Arts Setting-up Scheme 2000 – 2002
Christine has exhibited widely over a number of years in various parts of the North West, throughout this country, Europe and the USA. She is involved in various local Art groups and shows with them on a regular basis.
National Acrylic Painters Prize in 2004.
TEN exhibition during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial, in which she showed with Maurice Cockrill, John Hoyland and Terry Duffy among the ten artists.
One of the prize-winners, The Alternative Turner Competition. Liverpool 2007.
Christine has been part of various Community Art projects, working all over the North West. She also goes into schools to work as an artist, as well as teaching Art and Design within Secondary Education.
