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christine wallace

Perthshire born Christine’s love of painting started at Kilgraston School in the 40s when the building still held many of Francis Grant paintings.  “It was more interesting to me than boring Roman history!”  She later studied with Alberto Morocco for a year in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee before going to Edinburgh Art College where she was taught Art by the greats: Philipson; Blackadder; Houston and Gillies.  Christine was offered a post graduate scholarship but she went instead to study teacher training in Glasgow at Jordanhill College.  In Glasgow she met David Donaldson, Head of Glasgow School of Art and became an early muse of his spending many hours over a two year period in his studio at the top of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.  “Learnt so much from him”.

Christine taught in Glasgow, Birmingham and in the East End of London where she became a very young Head of Department.  When she moved to Somerset with her husband and young family she appointed an Agent to represent her in London.  She worked mainly in coloured pencils and watercolour and was featured in the Best of British Illustrators.  (A swing tag for Levis which was later put in their Museum in California).

In the late 80s, she moved to Pennsylvania, USA.  There she took lessons again in Life Drawing from Jim Wyndrum in Delaware.  Christine was also a guide at the Brandywine Museum which houses 3 generations of the Wyeth painters and of American Illustrators and was given permission to lecture in the UK on the Wyeth family.

 

“All my life I have painted and received commissions for portraits (mainly by word of mouth).  I have a great love of oil painting and have a real need to paint.”

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