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Christine McKechnie
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| Water Colour and Paper Collage |
| Artist's Statement |
Christine started making her collages in 1968; her early work in this medium employed bold decorative papers, including foil among many others. She now uses almost exclusively, hand-painted Ingres and cartridge paper. This is cut, applied and layered, employing many hundreds of pieces to produce her unique pictures. These are mostly landscapes depicting Suffolk, her garden, and places she visits on holiday.
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| Biography |
Christine McKechnie, born 1943, trained at Southampton and Kingston Schools of Art in the early sixties. She was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Show in the eighties and nineties; in 1983 she won a special award for her work with paper. Her pictures feature in many private and some public collections. An article about her work in ‘Leisure Painter’ led to a commission for a book on the art of paper collage from Search Press Ltd. Since then she has become a regular contributor to both ‘The Artist’ and ‘Leisure Painter’.
She has demonstrated collage on Granada television, and conducted projects with children in primary schools. She has carried out a successful village sign for Worlingworth, and a lottery funded community maze and scarecrow project with the villagers of Worlingworth and Southolt.
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| Recent Exhibitions |
2000
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Thompson Gallery Aldeburgh
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds |
| 2001
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Society of Graphic Fine Art, Annual Exhibition, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds |
2002
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3rd Paperleaf Art Fair, Battersea Art Centre
St. George’s Hospital Medical School, Tooting
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds |
| 2003
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Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds |
2004
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'One Woman Show’, Market Cross Gallery, Debenham
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds |
2005
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Haddenham Galleries Nr. Ely
Menier Gallery, Society of Graphic Fine Arts, London (PRIZEWINNER)
Suffolk Open Studios, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds |
| 2006
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The Fox and Goose, Fressingfield
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| Contact Details |
Cornerways
Southolt
Nr. Eye
Suffolk
IP23 7QJ
Tel: 01728 628732
Fax: 01728 861130
Email: christinemckechnie@suffolkonline.net
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