Christina Mingard: Painter

Artist Statement

Since moving to Allendale, I have had much to take in from my studio window.
There is in front of me a long meadow, where people wander, walking dogs and chatting; sometimes in
groups. As a result, I am beginning to people the landscape when painting it. The view is a
panorama and the more I look, the more there is to explore; working people; a mail van; farmhouses
and outlying dwellings all appear in winter and then disappear again in summer as the
trees fll out and dominate the view.

In this exhibition you will fnd a few ‘wild cards’ too, painted whilst house sitting for family.
Homage to Rousseau for example has a cat sitting in the undergrowth, staring at birds in a tree.
See if you can spot the cat. Pollarded Planes and It’s a New Day are some of my city paintings.