About

UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION

2nd November to 14th November, 2009 @ MLC Gallery, 449 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW. Opening night is Wednesday 4th November from 7-9pm so if you’re in Sydney please come along and say hi :)

Biographical Notes

1975-78 Commercial Photog. Phillip Baxter Studios, Sydney
1978 East Sydney Tech, Darlinghurst – Fine Arts.
(Now the National Art School)
1978-80 Honolulu. Art Studies, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
1980-84 EMI Recording Studios 301, Sydney, Australia.
1984 (June – Sept) UK
1984-85 (Sept-Jan) USA
1985-87 (Jan – July) UK
1989-96 Blue Mountains, NSW, Aust.
1996 Central Coast, NSW.
1997 Relocated to Sydney.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Royal Agricultural Society of NSW.
Kempsey Regional, NSW.
Fisher’s Ghost, Campbelltown, NSW.
Blue Mountains Community Arts Council, NSW.
Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW.
Pyrmont Arts Festival, Union Square, Pyrmont, NSW

Awards

BMCAC, Blue Mountains, NSW – Highly Commended

My works in Private Collections in:

Australia, England, USA & Switzerland.

I also have four books in print as well as downloadable on some of my art which also includes poetry through Lulu.com @ CJL Artworks Store

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING ANY OF MY ORIGINAL ART OR WOULD LIKE ONE OF MY DIGITAL WORKS DONE AS AN OIL OR ACRYLIC THEN PLEASE Contact Me Here ... THANK YOU

My art is about life…the good and bad of the physical experience.

It is spiritual in its viewpoints…and can be downright honest in its messages.

I also do photo retouching, slicing and reconstruction…for further information & to view examples please see my site at CJL Art Works

I undertake commissioned art works (from a supplied photograph, or not) including hand painting of any of my digitally created art in oils or acrylics but please note: Commissions will not be undertaken unless by written agreement and a down payment is made prior to my starting the work ... for further information please make enquiries here

PLEASE NOTE: MY WORK IS EXCLUSIVE WHICH MEANS ONCE I HAVE PAINTED A DIGITAL WORK IT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR HAND PAINTING AGAIN … I ONLY DO ONE PAINTING OF EACH HOWEVER PRINTS, POSTERS OR CANVAS REPLICAS ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE FROM THIS GALLERY.

Study & Work History

I studied Fine Art in 1978 at East Sydney Tech, Darlinghurst, NSW (now the National Arts School) for five months but am mainly self taught. I was honoured with a Highly Commended Award by the Blue Mountains Art Council in the Open Section of Arts in the Mountains for a painting titled Tribute to Peter – The Art Room an oil 41” x 48”. I love doing large works.

I have also worked in commercial photography (Phillip Baxter Photography) for a few years doing the accounts, client liaison on art layouts for their products, developing film, printing and doing copy photography of old prints and art works for books. One of my major jobs at the photographic studio was the hand toning and colouring, using old Kodak colouring tablets, of sepia prints of Berryman furniture. Another of those type of jobs was a print for Unicef which ended up as a poster promoting the organisation worldwide. It came into the studio as 4”x 6” print that had been folded in four and kept in a wallet for 2 years so I had to recopy it, produce a new 10”x8”print then spot with the toners all the scratches out before rephotographing the spotted print to produce a negative large enough to have it printed up into a large poster. It was of a woman and malnourished child and I cried for the whole of the first day working on it due to the appalling condition of the people particularly the little child. I left that position to live in Hawaii in late 1978 where I lived until 1980.

When I returned from living in Hawaii I worked in the recording industry as the bookings co-ordinator (Traffic Manager) for EMI Studios 301 in Sydney (sister studio to Abbey Road Studios, London, recording studios of the Beatles among other superstars). At the time the largest recording studio in the Southern Hemisphere where I learnt the techniques of recording. I then left that position in 1984 and went to live in UK for 6 months before relocating to the USA. I moved back to London at the beginning of 1985 where I went to The School of Computer Technology (an annex of the University of London) to study computing programming (COBOL) and returned to Sydney in 1987 with Credits from the College. I was to receive Distinctions from the UK Guild had I resat the written theory exam (they wanted my theory re-written less wordy) however I didn’t resit as I returned to Sydney due to my father’s poor health at the time … still, not bad for someone who left school at 15.

I also spent a considerable time working part-time in modelling and performing (commercials, stage & movies – as an extra only in movies) from childhood until retiring from those fields in my 40’s and was a founder of the Met Theatre in Katoomba (1994-1996). Performing, art and writing are a part of my hereditary (ancestors were in the professions too).

Some of my art works are in private collections in UK, USA, Switzerland, Hungary and Australia.

Viewpoints on Life

We are ALL a part of the creative process of life. Our emitted vibrations of energy are returned to us in many ways … the vibrations we emit via our thoughts and the feelings our thoughts create within so if they are thoughts and feelings of good & peace then we get good & peace.

Love is the energy of which we are – it IS GOD of which ALL is an atom of including flora & fauna and therefore Mother Nature. Love does not mean sex, which is a bodily desire and as such sex is not a spiritual need.

That movement of energy also applies to anger and destruction … it is the battle between good and evil … the Armageddon … which is within each & everyone, individually.

That is the true meaning of “As you give so shall you receive” and all those other wise old sayings of days gone by that still apply to this day and age and that no one can change that process of the energies of GOD’s Universe no matter how hard they try, we can only alter the flow of the energies through our understanding of the process.

GOD is the Ultimate – The Almighty Creator and Master Artist and will always be as God is me, you, your neighbour and ALL that has been, and will ever be, created.

Higher Consciousness is GOD and we are atoms of that GOD which moves the energy and moulds the way of how our life, including how this dimension of this world, becomes by our connection to that higher consciousness that some know as GOD. Therefore, what we put onto the energy lines via our vibrations of both actions & thoughts are emitted to GOD (the Higher Consciousness) which we are connected to and which feels our desires and brings those intents into being whether we want the resulted desires or not … so the message there would be keep a clean mind nature for what your thoughts are that go onto the lines of energy via your vibrations created by your thoughts & actions is what you get back – good & bad as GOD does not differentiate between the two degrees of being.

Life is the illusion of our being of which we create by moulding the energies into being by our belief and intents which then becomes as we desired.

This enitre world creates this world as to how it becomes through how we allow ourselves, as individuals to be. That it is in our power of self-control and up to each and everyone to have their self-control in order through their discipline of self.

We can alter the flow of the energies of this world to create a loving, peaceful and abundant world for ALL if people would WAKE UP to how they have been and ARE being controlled and dominated by those so called powers that be who think they have a right to use their mental (and therefore spiritual) illness against others in the form of domination.

The powers that be, the hierarchy, who believe they are the chosen ones of GOD are not the only children of GOD … everything and everyone in creation is a child of GOD – no exceptions. Demons are a figment of the individual imagination and in reality – DO NOT EXIST, although those powers that be who want to control your life would like you to believe that demons existed … it gives them more power by disempowering others.

Other art work includes: poetry, philosophy, hypotheses and inventions. Some of my poetry has been published in various anthologies in both Australia and USA as well as on CD’s for the hearing impaired through the International Library of Poetry.

Namaste & God Bless …

Christine Joy :)