The artist
Christine
Greenslade
Christine Greenslade’s paintings have grown out of a life of travel, enterprise and starting again.
Originally from Penzance, Cornwall, Christine studied Hotel Management and worked in hotels before establishing her own interior design company in the 1980s. As a single mother running a business, she built a career in hotel interiors that attracted international enquiries and coverage in national and international magazines.
The recession brought that chapter to an end in late 1992. Christine moved first to the Loire countryside in France, then to southern Spain, settling in a white Moorish village in the mountains of Andalusia.
There, without work but inspired by her surroundings, she asked a friend for something to paint on. Tables, found wood and discarded boards became her first surfaces. She experimented with sculpture, using chicken wire, resin and materials others had thrown away.
Although she returned to interior design to earn a living, painting had become part of her life. A later return to France, to renovate her old farmhouse, gave her the opportunity to paint and exhibit again.
From 2010, torn newspaper, bold acrylic colours and expressive, cartoon-like figures began to define a new collection. Her practice now includes painting, collage and portraiture, using acrylics, oils and oil pastels on varied surfaces.
Today, Christine lives in Mallorca. Her work reflects an enduring curiosity about people and everyday life, with colour, humour and a wish to leave the viewer feeling a little brighter.
Background
Exhibitions & experience
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions · 2017–2019
Vi-es Galleries, Sineu, Mallorca
Town Hall exhibition, Sineu, Mallorca
Artefact Gallery, Manhattan, New York
Further exhibitions
Pouancé and the Loire region, France
Marbella, Mijas and Istán, Andalusia, Spain
Breda and Rotterdam, the Netherlands
St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Professional experience
Hospitality
Studied Hotel Management at Cornwall College and worked in hotels in England and abroad.
Interior design · 1980s
Established her own interior design company, later developing a division specialising in hotel projects.