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 historical and universal. Her method sits between abstraction and figuration, gamer played with visual language and the readability of the image . Figuration, drawing, mark making, colour, patterning and motif are recurring strategies that are used to help the painting reveal itself.. Currently her focus is family linage, the space and distance between the past, the present and the future.

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. An alumni of Turps Banana 2025. She is a member of Studio106 in Hove https://www.studio106.co.uk/  and Art Can https://www.artcan.org.uk/