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About Christine Drummond
Christine Drummond was born and raised in Brazil. She received her formative education at the French Lycée in Rio de Janeiro and she sees herself a true “carioca”, meaning a person born and raised in Rio de Janeiro. A true “carioca” enjoys life, has faith in the future and is an optimist and she brings these characteristics into her paintings.
In 1999, she moved to the US and started painting using brushes but with little texture, the results revealed extremely colorful artworks that always depicted her native country. In 2004, she saw a display of Ablade Glover’s work and this helped her to define her style and gave her a sense of freedom. With the bold strokes of her palette knife, she creates texture that in turn creates shapes and colors that become alive on her canvases.
Today, Christine Drummond’s artworks are shown worldwide in collective and personal exhibitions, most recently with OpenArtCode group in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in the Grand Palais, Paris and in the solo exhibition at the Butler Goode Gallery in Sydney, Australia. Christine won the Prix du Concours at GemlucArt, in the world-renowned Prinicipality of Monte Carlo on the French Riviera and the prize was another extremely successful solo exhibition at the Ribolzi Gallery in Monte Carlo.
Artistic Statement
From my first canvas I knew I had found my way but there were different stages of the evolution of my style and the latest is “knife painting”. Painting with a knife gives me a sense of freedom in creation because nothing is static or delimited. My technique is a whole: it is the choice of colors, the palette knife to apply the colored strokes to the canvas and Brazilian music. It is a combination of visual pleasure (colors), tactile (application of paint on the canvas) and auditory (music) and one without the other does not work for me.
My favorite subject is the crowd. I love to paint groups of people in markets, carnivals, favelas. The idea of a crowd for me is a sense of diversity, exchanges between people, a feeling that "everything is possible". Alone, everything seems more difficult, but together we can all imagine and achieve. I paint these crowds that are always so cheerful and festive because I think the positive energy that emerges from a group is contagious in the same way.
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