If you’ve been reading Artsy Forager long, you’ve seen me gush about the work of this month’s Facebook Featured Artist, Christina Foard. Christina is an artist whose work is as much about her mental and spiritual journey of creating as it is about the physical result of paint on canvas.
Each canvas is a labor of intense devotion, worked and reworked until the artist is satisfied with her destination.
As she works the canvas, adding layer upon layer or excavating what lies beneath, the resulting textures become a large part of the story, until the composition she is longing for emerges.
To see more of Christina Foard’s work, please visit her website and be sure to check out her album on the Artsy Forager Facebook page! If you’re near the Jacksonville, FL area, you can still catch Christina’s show with July Featured Artist Thomas Hager at the Jacksonville International Airport, but only until the end of September. She’s currently working on a special long-term collaborative project I hope to share with you once she’s ready. Stay tuned.
All images are via the artist’s website.
Marsha Glazière
September 10, 2012 at 11:12 AMWonderful colors !
olivier1992art
September 10, 2012 at 3:11 PMFor some reason these paintings make me remind of some landscapes Egon Schiele made.
Lesley
September 11, 2012 at 7:43 PMLove that comparison, Olivier!
zookyshirts
September 11, 2012 at 6:43 AMVery cool style to these works.
Lesley
September 11, 2012 at 7:46 PMOne of the things I love most about Christina’s work is that her painting style is always consistent. She has her own visual language.
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