Ghost Ship: Thames Barge passing Shivering Sands, 2023
Chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio from Calle Larga Narni: Venice, 2020
View from the Museo del Settecento to the Church of Saint Barnabas along the Rio de S. Barnaba, 2020
View Along Rio de la Verona to the Tower of Santo Stefano, Venice, 2020
Rio de la Toreseie from the Ponte San Cristoforo, Campiello Barbaro: Venice, 2021
St Bride’s Church from Bride Lane with London Plane (Winter), 2020
Still Life with Lace (Five Mugs), 2021
Harbour Study #6: The Slipway, 2021
Harbour Study #5: Port Isaac, 2020
Harbour Study #3: Portscatho, 2020
Harbour Study #1: St Ives, Smeaton’s Pier, 2018
Llanigon: View to the Mountains, 2018
Seven Pears (Corona Borealis), 2019
Ship’s Cat: Old Town, Margate, 2018
St Ives Rooftops: Mist and Light II, 2018
Seven Oranges (Winter Circle), 2019
Apparition (Double Shadow) II, 2019
Jonathan Christie
‘For these four Ghost Ship paintings, I had in the back of my mind a sentence that the mariner and naïve painter Alfred Wallis put in a letter to his patron Jim Ede in 1935: ‘What i do mosley is What use To Bee out of my own memery what We may never see again as Thing are altered all To gether Ther is nothin what Ever do not look like what it was sence i Can Rember…’ Jonathan Christie
Jonathan Christie (b.1969) grew up in South-West London before completing his Foundation at Kingston and his Degree at Maidstone. Jonathan lives in East Sussex and has exhibited his paintings and drawings throughout the United Kingdom. Jonathan Christie’s paintings are inspired by real places and objects, but in the memory, reimagined, conflated, obscured and elucidated. 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.