Chrissy Guest

Joined Artfinder: Dec. 2016

Artworks for sale: 140

(47)

United Kingdom

Updates from Chrissy Guest's studio

  • paint application

    A very short clip, showing confident paint application. The white paint was applied over a prepared canvas. I work in many layers, and quite often, these marks will not always form an oblivious part of the final composition.

    27 October 2019
    mixed feelings

    mixed feelings

    It's very sad when you have to pack away a home and studio to move, but exciting too! I am fed up of looking at cardboard boxes, but only a few more weeks and it will all be over with. Wish me luck, I'll let you know how it goes. XX

    18 October 2019
    BEST SELLER

    BEST SELLER

    Thanks to all my buyers from all over the world. XX This month I'm proud to say I made the top 40 best sellers list. With over 10,000 wonderful artists on this site I'm feeling very happy.

    05 October 2019

    02 August 2019
    CURATORS ARTIST OF THE MONTH

    CURATORS ARTIST OF THE MONTH

    I'm so thrilled to receive the news that one of Artfinders Curators has selected my work as July Artist of the Month. With over 10,000 Artfinder artists on the site, I am absolutely delighted.

    02 August 2019
    Number One!!

    Number One!!

    I've just noticed that I'm number one in the staff picks .WOW! with over 10,000 artists on this wonderful site I'm a bit overwhelmed. Thank you everyone at Artfinder.

    05 May 2019

    watch the video close-ups of my oil painting Early Summer Concerto

    I explore the effect of music and mark making. It was so exciting, took about a year to complete this large oil painting. It's been a joy to work on.

    04 May 2019

    International Women's day 2019

    Artfinder asked me to make a short video, it's about being a woman in art today, here's my brief story.

    08 March 2019
    CELEBRATING WOMEN COLLECTION

    CELEBRATING WOMEN COLLECTION

    It's an overwhelming privileged to have this painting OPTIMISM and two other artworks ,included in Artfinders new collection celebrating women. Thank you so very much, it's a wonderful inspiring collection, with so many talented female artists demonstrating what they can do, here on Artfinder.

    05 March 2019
    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

    Artfinder asked me to do a short video, for International Women's Day, explaining what drives me to create and why it's so important to support women in the art world. You can see this now on my Instagram page. Thanks for looking.x

    05 March 2019
    INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY 8th March

    INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY 8th March

    It's INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY on 8th March Lets celebrate female artists! We haven't always had the freedom to paint. I've been inspired by many, and would like to give a mention to Hilma af Klint (b1862) she was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were among the first abstract art. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. Thank you to all those female artists in History, who have helped us have the freedom of expression most of us enjoy today.

    04 March 2019
    PREPARING A LARGE CANVAS

    PREPARING A LARGE CANVAS

    Four stages of preparation, ready to start work on a very large canvas. 1. I stretch the heavy grade cotton canvas over a large old temporary stretcher. 2. The canvas is pulled fairly tight, but allowing some slack. 3. The canvas is prepared with two coats of size, then three of Primer Gesso, this protects, seals and pulls the last bit of slack out of the canvas. 4. The gesso is dry, and I can make the first few marks, and so it begins. On completion, the canvas will be removed from the stretchers and rolled for shipping. Having the canvas re-stretched at your framers is relatively inexpensive and much cheaper that shipping on the stretcher. I then re-use the stretcher bars for the next large piece of work. Why go to all this trouble? Keep shipping cost low or free Shipping extra large paintings, rolled in a tube, offers much greater protection in transit Professional quality canvas is used I'm a perfectionist!

    31 January 2019