christineosullivan

Christine won the Oxfordshire Artweeks 2009 Art Wine competition. The winning image is on 600 bottles of a special blend of red wine by top winemaker David Morrison for Oxford Wine Company. The image was also on the cover of the 2009 Artweeks guide.

The colourful vibrant paintings get their inspiration from the urban landscape, which is a key influence in my work; the NYC series of paintings are no exception. The grid of streets, the brash colours of neon billboards, the proliferation of yellow taxis, and the extraordinary views from skyscrapers are some of the sensations, which remain with me and influence these paintings. Rather than recalling the actual place they aim to capture the sensation of the city