Visual artist
Paint is dead matter.
I breathe life into it.
I feel when a work comes to life.
That moment determines everything.
Christine Comyn studied at Sint-Lucas in Ghent and began her career in applied arts, including as an illustrator of children's books. Starting from watercolour — a medium in which water takes the lead — her work evolved towards acrylic on canvas, while retaining the same freedom and fluidity.
Christine Comyn has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including in: Bruges, Knokke, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Versailles, Barcelona, Stockholm, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Barranquilla (Colombia), Los Angeles, Fijnaart (the Netherlands)
Process
In dialogue
with movement
Performance & Music
Christine also paints live, guided by music and movement. In collaborations with dancers and musicians, painting emerges as improvisation. With light, shadow and water in real time.
“For she was intangible,
defying gravity, dissolving
into fragments of light and colour”
Movement
Commissioned by, among others, the Ballet of Flanders, Christine followed dancers during rehearsals and performances, right into the wings. She observed the tension, the release, the recovery and the return to the stage. That intensity translates into her work, in which body, rhythm and emotion come together.
Beyond the classical art world, she also sought out this closeness. She portrayed, among others, Kim Gevaert as part of the Memorial Van Damme, and worked with artists such as Martha, a dancer with Cirque du Soleil, whom she observed and painted during her private training sessions.
Encounter
For her portraits, Christine Comyn invites people into her studio. She wants to know who someone is, how they move, speak and carry themselves. Every portrait emerges from that encounter and translates a life story into image: a pièce unique, shaped by the feeling of the subject and that of the artist. The result is always a combination of two people.
