About Me

Hi! The name's Christina, the ever-curious girl with a heart full of joy and a head full of wonder. I have always been inspired by all the cuteness and synchronicities that abound in the natural world. Growing up as an eighties kid, my scholastic life had pegged me to be the 'science girl', sending me to all of the Girls in STEM workshops and programming. And though I didn't choose a scientific field of study outright, my love of biology, botany and natural sciences has found expression through my artistic lens. 

I love a good story and am a hopeless romantic for wordplay, so the majority of my works are entangled with lore and heady titles that sate these ends. I am constantly reuminating over this idea that the flora and fauna act as one giant organism, unlike the human version that is ever imposing onto our environment. 

Those who know me know that I am intensely political when it comes to my consumer choices, trying very hard to put environmentally sound practices at the forefront. In a capitalist-driven society, our only hope of shifting this mad paradigm is through exercising this power of choice and guiding the shift towards a more ecologically sustainable societal model. And this dialogue often finds its way into my works. 

With two bachelors degrees in Psycholgy and Art History, I am quite possibly the classic example of a hopeless scholar that loves to learn for the sake of learning and aside from a few years working in galleries, it is not until I started to express myself through art that I found myself and passion in my life. 

And to that end, my artistic journey began with sewing clothing and working with indie pattern designers to help fit their patterns when my youngest was a toddler nearly a decade ago,  which led me to blockprinting surface designs onto what I was sewing. As I am ever challenging myself to level up, I learned how to linoprint on paper and started making linoprint works. As enjoyable as that process was, I became increasingly aware that to infuse my linoprints with more colour I would have to become even more precise and learn reduction printing. And that was the very moment that I decided to pick up a paintbrush for real and challenge myself to create form at the tip of a brush.

I had found my muse. Full stop. To be able to live in the colour stage of the artistic process from infancy is exactly the thing that my heart needed. Choosing to live on the edge of comfort, I am constantly chasing that excitement that my adventurous heart desires and challenging myself to level up my painting skills.