Christine Griffin

Location: US Web: www.quickreaver.com Email: alizarin_griffin@yahoo.com media: Conté crayons, charcoal, graphite, inks, oils Christine’s inspirations lie in beauty gone askew, the devil in the details and the human animal. “Working in a variety of media has been tricky and rewarding,” she says. “With digital, there isn’t a colour you can’t pick, a change you can’t make. Nothing beats delivery to a client by simply hitting Send.

“On the other hand, there’s something so satisfying about working with traditional media. The grit of pencil on paper, the smell of solvents, that hallowed original, which is almost impossible to create digitally. Traditional art is deliciously tangible.”

For this artist, painting has to fit around the roles of mother and wife: “Squeezing in time to make art has been a slippery balance between chores, chauffeuring and an easily distracted muse,” she says.