Christina Phillips

Christina Phillips’ works of art explore her personal relationship with the rivers, beaches, and surrounding coastline of the stunningly beautiful Isle of Wight, and the countryside of The New Forest.

Many of her landscape paintings and drawings are the Artist’s spiritual and emotional inner response to the ever-changing effects of light on water that she observes in the stillness of the rivers, in the movement of the sea and in the seasonal variations in colour that she finds surrounding her in nature. The series of paintings that contain the fragile, and beautiful Egrets, symbolise, for Christina, her deeply spiritual view of the journey that all living creatures make during their lifetime.

Christina trained at Camberwell School of Art in her twenties. Her approach to creating her work is traditional in that she begins her pieces by sketching, and photographing directly from her favourite places on the island. Being surrounded by and immersed in nature allows her to record her immediate response to what she is seeing and feeling. From here, she returns to her studio where more ideas, drawings, and smaller paintings are produced. When creating the final piece, she uses meditation music and mantras to enhance her mental and spiritual relationship with her painting.

Frequently, she feels that when she has a brush in her hand and the canvas in front of her, that for a period of time she leaves the physical world and paints in a trance induced state of mind. Often, whilst working, she will not be aware of whether minutes, hours or even a day have gone past.

Christina lives on the Isle of Wight with her two children and their Golden Retriever, Ziggy.