An exhibition of paintings by Christine Allison

Private View: Friday 19th of June 2009 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Christine Allison’s powerful, figurative oil paintings portray the connectedness of human beings. Through the use of bold and vibrant colours she describes the moods and emotions created by the relationships between the paintings’ subjects, reflected not only in their faces but also between and around the spaces they inhabit. By her choice of colours, Allison also explores the intuitive emotional symbolism human beings attribute to colour. Tension, harmony, affection, anger or serenity are all mirrored in Allison’s intense hues of the colour spectrum.

Exhibition runs from: Friday 19th of June to 2nd of July 2009
Gallery Opening Hours: Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs: 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thurs 2nd of July: 11.00am to 5.00pm

Allison says of her work: ‘To be a human being is the experience we know. To be connected in that experience to other human beings extends our knowing. I am connected, you are connected; we are connected. I feel, you feel; we feel. Sometimes humans touch physically, other times it is the space between them that touches and holds the most feeling. As in what is said and what is unsaid, it can be the silence that shouts the loudest. Words connect into sentences; human beings connect into relationships.’

Christine Allison was born in Northumberland and now lives and paints in Dorset. She trained from 1972 - 1976 at St. Martin’s School of Art, London. In 2001 she was awarded a scholarship to study at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.