Christine McArthur : 7 – 24 May 2024

This exhibition of Four Seasons is created from the artist’s completely independent point of view. Ten years of art school life and then teaching instilled in her the concept of the year beginning in September. Christine’s three sisters – teachers and educational librarians – reinforced the timescale of the academic year. The seasons, and their order, have always been important to her, as a cook, as a poet and, most obviously here, as an artist. They control what is available to draw and paint. The annual burst of colour in the new anemones, snow drops and hellebores – winter flowers. Summer poppies, autumn fruits. The pressure to paint them all before they disappear for another year.