Christine Durrant

After nearly 40 years of trying out many different forms of art in my spare time, I was finally able to give art my all when I retired in November 2024.  It has been an incredible freedom and pleasure to indulge my creative spirit every day.  My work has developed rapidly with the extra time I have been able to devote to it.

I am rarely to be found without a sketchbook in hand as you never know what the day will offer in terms of artistic challenge.  I belong to two local art groups which allow me to mix with fellow enthusiasts and share ideas and talents.  

My work has featured in exhibitions at Artizan, Torre Abbey and the Projection Room.

In November 2025, I joined forces with my husband Tim to hold an exhibition at the Projection Room in Paignton in aid of Rowcroft Hospice.  We raised almost £600

I have recently returned from a holiday in Japan and am currently working on a series of paintings entitled ‘Inspired by Tokyo’
 

This is an imagined landscape which is reminiscent of many parts of the British coastline and as such can take the viewer to their own favourite spot.

 

Painted on reclaimed plywood there are pock marks and chips which add to the texture of the dunes and the sea. It echoes the fact that wood drifts up onto beaches everywhere. The aim is to convey a feeling of every season and none, with a mixture of winter branches, autumnal grasses and the white flowers that herald signs of the warmth to come in the spring and summer.

 

The beach is windswept and empty, white horses in the sea crash onto the shore. WHen you walk up the path and onto the be

Mixed Media on Reclaimed Plywood

49x49cm

Unframed