About.

Christina’s painting is about life as a narrative, as a story that can be told. Drawing from archival material and personal memorabilia her paintings provide glimpses and hints of her own experiences but intermingled with something more universal, more historical. Her method sits between abstraction and figuration playing a game with visual language and the readability of the image to help the painting reveal itself. Figuration, drawing, mark making, colour, patterning and motif are recurring strategies. Currently her focus is on the exploration of emotional and physical distance in the matriarchal line, between mothers’ sisters and daughters.

 Arts Education

Christina Reading lives and works in Brighton. She studied at BA Fine Art Central St Martins. School of Institute of Art & Design, London, The University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, and completed a DPhil in Fine Art at the University of Brighton. She is a member of Studio106 in Hove https://www.studio106.co.uk/  and Art Can https://www.artcan.org.uk/