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Christine McKechnie

Watercolour painted paper collages
Artist's Statement
I discovered collage as a process when I moved to the US and my oil paints were impounded by a dock strike. At that time I also made papier-mâché pots and pieced quilts in the manner of the early settlers. I have hopes that my womanly art will eventually be recognized by a wider circle of enthusiasts. Currently winning applause at the Sir John Soane’s Museum is an exhibition of Mrs Delaney’s work, she was an 18th century maker of collages, embroideries, and designer of shell grottos, also at the V&A is a wildly popular exhibition of quilts.

My collages are made using almost exclusively hand painted Ingres and cartridge paper. This is cut, applied and layered, employing many hundreds of pieces to produce my pictures. They are produced in my studio from my detailed pencil drawings, and are mostly landscapes depicting Suffolk, my garden, and places visited on holiday.

Biography
Christine McKechnie 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.

Recent Exhibitions
I have a continuous exhibition at the Fox and Goose, Fressingfield, and have exhibited annually with Artworks and Suffolk Open Studios at Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds, also with the Society of Graphic Fine Arts at the Menier Gallery (prize winner in 1985), London.
2004

'One Woman Show’, Market Cross Gallery, Debenham
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds
2005

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 The Fox and Goose, Fressingfield
2008 Chelsea Arts Club
2009 Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Exhibitions in 2010
Buckenham galleries, Southwold
Ardley Art exhibition

Contact Details
Cornerways
Southolt
Nr. Eye
Suffolk
IP23 7QJ

Tel: 01728 628732

Fax: 01728 861130

Email: christinemckechnie@suffolkonline.net

Web: www.christinemckechnie.co.uk

Links
www.bridgeman.co.uk
www.chelseaartsclub.com
www.suffolkopenstudios.co.uk




Christine McKechnie
Fuerteventura,
Collage


Christine McKechnie
Fleetwith Pike, Buttermere,
Collage

Christine McKechnie
Venice chimney,
Collage

© copyright artworks 2010