Jonathan Christie
Born: 1969Place of Birth: London
Jonathan Christie is an artist and designer whose work is inspired by the landscapes and interiors of England, most notably Sussex, Suffolk, Wales and Cornwall.
Jonathan trained at Maidstone College of Art in Kent. He has exhibited extensively throughout Britain, including at The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex and The Rowley Gallery in Kensington, London.
Christie’s paintings are all inspired by real places and objects, but in the memory, reimagined, conflated, obscured and elucidated. His technique is the clear handmaid to the evocation of what he himself describes as, “a personal Genius Loci, that asks us to contemplate and look beneath the surface.”
Deploying watercolour, graphite and sgraffito on a gesso board, he will incise, distress, glaze and wash, but always guided by the powerful impulse of drawing. In this way the paintings emerge from change and development, traces of their genesis apparent at completion.
A ceramic dog is reanimated by the poetic congruity of its appearance in front of the Southwold lighthouse; Orion’s shape is traced onto a moon-lit compotier of lemons; a marbled cup lends its pattern to a winding coastal path. These are the charms of Christie’s vision, at once incisive and delicate, the working of imagination on memory. Christina Jansen, 2019
Jonathan Christie was the subject of a solo exhibition at The Scottish Gallery in December 2019 called Sky Sea Land. His next exhibition will be held in June 2021.
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Marbled Mug: Church Cove View details
Jonathan Christie
Marbled Mug: Church Cove
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:27.5cm W:27.5cm£760Mist (Godrevy from St Ives) View detailsJonathan Christie
Mist (Godrevy from St Ives)
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:26cm W:12cm£625Yellow Jug: St Ives View detailsJonathan Christie
Yellow Jug: St Ives
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:30cm W:26cm£745Jonathan at his 2019 exhibition View details-
Polaris View details
Jonathan Christie
Polaris
2020watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:33cm W:26.5cmSoldBlack-Sailed Ship View detailsJonathan Christie
Black-Sailed Ship
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:23cm W:33.5cmSoldHarbour Study #1: St Ives, Smeaton's Pier View detailsJonathan Christie
Harbour Study #1: St Ives, Smeaton's Pier
2018watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:14cm W:18cmSoldHarbour Study #2: Port Isaac View detailsJonathan Christie
Harbour Study #2: Port Isaac
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:14cm W:17cmSoldLlanigon: View to the Mountains View detailsJonathan Christie
Llanigon: View to the Mountains
2018watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:28cm W:36.5cmSoldOdd Dog: Southwold View detailsJonathan Christie
Odd Dog: Southwold
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:31.5cm W:25cmSoldOrion (Night Forms) View detailsJonathan Christie
Orion (Night Forms)
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:29cm W:36cmSoldPienza Arches View detailsJonathan Christie
Pienza Arches
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:23.5cm W:36cmSoldSeven Pears (Corona Borealis) View detailsJonathan Christie
Seven Pears (Corona Borealis)
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:20.5cm W:30cmSoldShip's Cat: Old Town, Margate View detailsJonathan Christie
Ship's Cat: Old Town, Margate
2018watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:31cm W:30cmSoldSt Ives Rooftops: Mist and Light II View detailsJonathan Christie
St Ives Rooftops: Mist and Light II
2018watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:29.5cm W:36.5cmSoldStar Bowl (Seven Sisters) View detailsJonathan Christie
Star Bowl (Seven Sisters)
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:33.5cm W:42cmSoldSeven Oranges (Winter Circle) View detailsJonathan Christie
Seven Oranges (Winter Circle)
2019watercolour, gesso & graphite on boardH:25cm W:25cmSoldStill Life with Spot Plate View detailsJonathan Christie
Still Life with Spot Plate
2005mixed media on boardH:32.3cm W:23.8cmSoldApparition (Double Shadow) II View detailsJonathan Christie
Apparition (Double Shadow) II
2019watercolour, gesso and graphite on boardH:7.5cm W:7.5cmSoldLoading
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