Comyn, Christine

• Yearning
• £126.00
• Limited Edition Giclee Loose Paper print
• 500 x 400 mm
• 100

About the artist

Being confident and creative, Comyn chose to abandon her solely figurative style and unleashed a body of work that earned her recognition by a most discriminating international clientele. Refusing to adopt a wild and free-form style Comyn instead preferred to explore the potentialities of colour and rhythm, without neglecting the need for structure. The result: explosive colour compositions that possessed a unique pictorial tension amidst logical balance.

In 1991 Christine Comyn was selected by L’Oreal Cosmetics Group in Brussels to execute a series of paintings inspired by their new fragrance line. The artist’s translation of complex aromas in extraordinary visual images became the focus of a national promotional campaign and the publication of the limited edition lithographs: "Turbulent" and "Shimmering Light". The recognition earned through this endeavour propelled Comyn’s reputation in the Contemporary Art World to new heights.

By 1992 Comyn merged her propensity for figurative and abstract techniques and allowed herself to study her new-found interest in figurative painting, especially the human body. Her art work offers us a combination of abstract and figure painting.

The way in which the human figure –man or woman- is carefully integrated within the total image is quite surprising. Though they seem to occupy a central place in her lively scenes, they play a secondary role and are a result of what former lines and colour patches evoke in the artist’s mind. From the dynamism and symbolism inherent to the purely pictorial background emerges an emotion that assumes the shape of a human figure.

Her art work unites the somewhat hard character of acrylics and the livelier and light one of watercolour. Each technique could also act autonomously, but without achieving the power and compactness of the global effect that is so typical of Christine Comyn’s paintings.