Escape, wonder, and reflection – these are the feelings evoked by Christine Montague’s beautifully rendered, realistic oil paintings of people, places & portraits. An award-winning artist, with an academic background (B.F.A., B.Sc. Concordia University; Ontario College of Art and Design), Christine easily makes the transition from landscape & figurative painter to portrait artist. Her confident, contemporary brush stroke, and her ability to paint large canvases as easily as small, result in inspirational images of summer days by the Lake Huron Shore, plein air landscapes & portraiture.
An artist active in the western GTA since 2003, Christine has participated in over 50 art shows. She has had a studio & was a board member of Beaux- Arts Brampton, an artist co-operative she helped to create. From there, Christine painted portrait commissions & figurative landscapes out of her studio/gallery, and was a Board executive, at the Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre in Halton Hills. In 2007, Christine worked solely out of her Mississauga home studio while she passionately advocated on behalf of her city’s artists for much needed low cost studio space. Christine is now the visual artist representative on two committees seeking resolution to this issue. Recently, Christine opened a new studio at the Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre where she continues to work on her series “The Reluctant Tourist”.
Christine’s paintings are in the collection of McGill University, Peel District School Board, and Youthdale. Her larger-than-life portrait of the late, jazz great, Dr. Oscar Peterson was presented to the Peterson Family and Mayor Hazel McCallion at the “Mayor’s Tribute to Oscar Peterson: Feelings From the Heart”. It hangs by the Mayor’s portrait at the entrance to Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga. Christine’s original landscape and portrait paintings are in numerous private collections (Canada, England, Bermuda, USA)
SELECTED SHOWS:
2010 Visual Arts Mississauga 32nd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts. Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2010 Snow. Williams Mill Gallery. Glen Williams, ON
2009 Big Art, Small Works. Williams Mill Gallery. Glen Williams, ON
2009 Made by Hand. Whitney Gallery. Peel Heritage Complex. Brampton, ON
2009 Art at the Starch Building. Mississauga, ON
2009 Art-09. Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Toronto, ON
2008 Artworks 9th Annual Juried Show. Oakville Town Hall Gallery. Oakville, ON
2008 Living Arts Centre Juried Art Show. Laidlaw Hall Gallery. The Living Arts Centre. Mississauga, ON
2008 GIFTed. Art Cove Gallery. Beaux-Arts Brampton. Brampton, ON
2008 eyeFULL 3. Williams Mill Gallery. Glen Williams, ON
2007 Colour and Form Society 55th Annual Open Juried Art Show. Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery. Toronto, ON
2007 Artworks 8th Annual Juried Show. Oakville Town Hall Gallery. Oakville, ON
2007 5th Anniversary Members Show. Beaux-Arts Gallery. Brampton, ON
2007 Diversity. Society of Canadian Artists Juried Show. J.D. Carrier Gallery. Toronto.
2007 eyeFULL 2. Williams Mill Gallery. Glen Williams, ON
2006 Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Art Show. Art Gallery of Mississauga. Mississauga, ON
2006 Made to Measure. Arts Etobicoke Gallery. Toronto, ON
2006 Artworks 7th Annual Juried Show. Oakville Town Hall Gallery. Oakville, ON
2006 Art Gallery of Peel 33rd Annual Juried Show, Brampton, ON
2006 Contemporary Works: Paintings Sculptures and Other Media. Gallery Streetsville, Mississauga, ON
2006
eyeFULL. Williams Mill Gallery. Glen Williams, ON
2005 Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Art Show, Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, ON
2005 Arts Etobicoke Annual Juried Art Show, Etobicoke City Hall, Toronto, ON
2005 John Sommer Juried Show. Halton Hills Cultural Centre, Georgetown, ON
2005 Mill Works. Halton Hills Cultural Centre Art Gallery. Georgetown, ON
2005 Sands of Time. Beaux-Arts Brampton Board of Director Show. Beaux-Arts Gallery. Brampton
2005 Singular. Solo show. Williams Mill Gallery. Glen Williams, ON
