Christina Hammill Paul
Paintings 2020-2025
Figures overlap and intertwine in my most recent work. While I do a lot of figure drawing from life, the figures in my paintings evolve as I paint. It is a search to reveal the human figure as part of the world.
My impressionistic abstract work is a combination of strokes and textures and subtle shifts in color. I seek to capture a feeling or memory of a space and the shifting effect of light. The space may be obscure while others more obviously convey nature and the landscape.
In all my work I am driven by what is happening on the canvas as I apply paint and watch what might reveal itself. It is an intuitive process drawn from my years of study and practice and from memory.
Christina Hammill Paul has been painting on and off since her teen years. After majoring in fine art in college, she built a career as a graphic designer and art director. There was never enough time to devote to her own art. Now retired, she paints every day in her home studio. She works in acrylics with a new-found freedom from the subject, following the brush and being responsive to the act of painting, which makes her latest work varied and emotional. She continues to explore her visual vocabulary using nature and the figure as a point of reference and release.
Christina received a B.A. in Art from St. Elizabeth University in New Jersey. After college she lived in New York City for 12 years and took extension classes in painting with Manfred Schwarz at The New School and Leo Manso at NYU. After moving to the Boston MA area in 1979, she maintained a studio at The Umbrella in Concord MA, took part in many shows and began to sell her work. In 2019, she retired as the Creative Director at Candlewick Press, a children’s book publisher in Somerville MA, where she had worked for 25 years. Now living in the Buffalo NY area, she continues to freelance the design and art direction of some of Candlewick’s high profile books. Her latest painting mentor wass renowned artist and teacher William (Skip) Lawrence.
Christina was also the founder and one of the curators of THE COMMA Fine Art Gallery in East Aurora, NY. After a year of successful shows and artist's talks and conversations, the gallery lease ended. It is now about to reopen in Orchard Park. more info: www.thecommafineart.com
EXHIBITS:
Decorator’s Show House / Grace Millard Knox Mansion /
August-September 2021
Capello Salon / Buffalo 2022
Artwork East Aurora Fall 2022 featured artist at 21 Elm
Carnegie Art Center / January 2023
Wyoming Arts Council exhibit 2023
Decorator’s Show House / St. Patrick's Friary house /June 2023
BSA River Art Gallery May 2023
BSA Summer Exhibit / Carnegie At Center July 2023
BSA Catalogue Show / Springville Center for the Arts 2023
Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society / Project 308 2023
The COMMA / group show Inside, Outside, In Between 2023
BSA open show / NACC / 2024
THE COMMA Gallery curators' show / 2024
BSA Summer Exhibit / Gallery 308 / 2024
WNYAG / Fall 2024
BSA Catalog Show / Keenan Art Center / 2024
AWARDS:
Honorable Mention for INSIDE / BSA Catalogue Show / Springville Center for the Arts 2023
Third Place Award COUNTY FAIR / NFWS Watermedia Show / Project 308 2023
MEMBERSHIPS:
Buffalo Society of Artists / Exhibiting member
Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society
WNY Artists Group
GRAPHIC DESIGN C.V.
1967-69 / Assistant Designer, Norcross NYC
1969-71 / Designer, Macmillan Publishing Co. NYC
1971-75 / Art Director, John Wiley and Sons NYC
1975-99 / Freelance Designer
1988-94 / Senior Designer, Little, Brown and Co. MA
1999-2018 / Creative Director, Candlewick Press MA
2019-2024 / Creative Director at-large, Candlewick Press
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