Christine McNamara
“I try to achieve a quality of calmness and serenity in my images while maintaining the freshness of watercolor.”
Watercolor has been my preferred medium for 25 years. I love the luminosity and “happy accidents” that result from using transparent watercolors. It’s also a very portable medium and a joy to use. My favorite subjects are landscapes and seascapes (painted outdoors or from my own sketches and photographs), floral still lifes, and non-objective expressions of color and line. Recently I have been experimenting with painting on textured surfaces created with acrylic texture mediums. I also use watercolor with collage, by staining papers with watercolor and painting over textured paper. Japanese textured and patterned papers feature in my recent collages, and sometimes I start a piece by collaging dried, empty tea bags.
About the Artist
My art background includes 17 years as an illustrator for educational publishers. After receiving a B.A. in Studio Art from Stanford University I continued my studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Art. My fine art has received numerous awards in regional art shows and is in private collections nationwide. My work can be seen year-round at the Artisans’ Co-op Gallery in Bodega, California.
Please visit my website www.christinemcnamara.com
