Online Critique With Leanne Christie, SFCA

Thursday, June 20th

4.00 PM - 6.00 PM (PDT)

Online Via Zoom 

Open to all levels!  

Limited to 10 students!

Interactive Online Critiques:

To get to that “next level” you’ll sometimes need the constructive feedback of an experienced critic/fellow artist to drive your work forward. Critiques will help you grow as an artist and help you develop your work. Hear what is working in your art and ask for input on your current challenges. You’ll receive an overall evaluation of your artwork's strengths and weaknesses and a clear idea of how to move forward with your art by FCA Senior Member Leanne Christie. 

About Leanne Christie, SFCA: 

Urban Oil painter Leanne M Christie has a reputation for complex paintings that are built with powerful brushwork and the sophisticated manipulation of her medium. 

Christie’s paintings are at first understood by the viewer whose participation is provoked by her relentless harnessing of the communicative properties unique to oil painting. The distilled open relationship between the painter and the slow drying oil painting is the characteristic of the medium that Christie burrows into. The complexity that this investigation lends to Christie’s work is the marriage of passive and active time, dependant on the triad between the artist, the viewer, and the work.

Christie’s concept of complexity through the inclusion of active and passive time as a catalytic element in the paintings; finds the perfect partner in her urban subjects, which are naturally founded on the complex relationships of the urban citizen and urban politics.

Christie paints full time in her Vancouver studio and, when not accompanied by her PADS puppy in training, her 50km cycling commute from her home in Coquitlam, gives Christie an intimate kinship with the flow of the urban streets. The unrehearsed transitory moments provide the abundant source of her paintings.

Born and raised in South Africa, Christie moved to the Canadian West Coast in the late 2000’s after a period of 10 years abroad that had originated as a 2 week holiday after the completion of her Bachelor of Fine Art from Rhodes University, Makhanda in the Eastern Cape.

How to register:

Using the submission on artists.ca, upload up to two images of your work for the Online Critique Session by no later than Monday, 17th June. The critique is limited to 10 participants, so please submit early in order to secure your spot.

Critique fee:

$35 (members) | $40 (non-members) + 5% GST

After enrolling you will receive an emailed invoice. Please keep this for your records. Closer to the critique date, you will be sent an email with further instructions and a link to the interactive online platform. If you have further questions about online critiques, please don't  hesitate to get in touch. Email education@artists.ca or call 604-681-2744.  

Student Testimonials:

•  "Leanne is very knowledgeable (...). She is a wonderful person to have a discussion with, in any style of painting."

•  "Leanne was very encouraging and gives very thoughtful suggestions. I also  enjoyed listening to all the feedback for the other artists."

•  "Leanne is fabulous! Two thumbs up and I will join more online critiques again." 

•  "What an opportunity to have an artist of that stature look at your work!" 

• "For Leanne: I loved it that you had spent time looking at each artist's website before the session, to situate their pieces in the larger body of their work."