Art by Christine Trainor
Christine Trainor's latest series of large-scale paintings, which focus on the place where sky, sea and land meet, are culled from observation of Prince Edward Island beaches and the Atlantic coast of Ireland. According to the artist, the two places share affinities of light and atmosphere, and are thus ripe for recombination; the works do not each record a single moment of viewing, or a single location. Rather they are flowing of the shoreline and the unpredictability of maritime weather. They also record another process of transformation, that of the natural world into a picture. Natural forms blur and shift along Trainor's canvases, much as paint is pushed across them, dissolving and reconstituting forms and surfaces. Atmospheres where salt and water scour the earth, turning it into sand, washing it away with the tides, and reforming it, appear to be, for Trainor, analogous to the exhilarating scene of painting itself.
