Christine Allison - Lyme Regis Artist

Making art enriches my life. It challenges, seduces, frustrates, confuses, moves, teaches and comforts me. The creative urge to make a drawing or a painting is born out of a primitive desire to communicate about something I am seeing, thinking or feeling. Art for me is not an embellishment but a language about life.

Sometimes my work is literal, sometimes more abstract. The sky, sea and natural world of Lyme Bay are a constant source of fascination to me. I love to draw and paint down by the sea but I also love working in my studio.

At times I am compelled to paint large narrative pieces, which call upon my imagination and years of life drawing experience.

Through energetic marks I aim to breathe life into each artwork and I am not afraid to use colour.

I co-ordinate and tutor a '5Day Art Course' for adults at The Town Mill in Lyme Regis and organise community projects and events. These projects have been successfully recognised nationally and are important to me.

I aim to create artworks and projects that touch, inspire, amuse, involve and enrich my life and the lives of those around me.

2008