Christie Bird was born in 1970 in the British Virgin Islands. This tropical childhood formed her earliest influences including watching her mother paint large, water colour still lives on the kitchen table. After Art Foundation at the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, U.S.A., Christie moved to London to work as a muralist and set painter.
She now paints full time from her home near the sea in Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
Christie’s gesso-based still lives are easily influenced by the shingle beach and fields of wildflowers nearby, but perhaps the light and colours of her childhood on Tortola remain her most important influence
Selected Exhibitions
Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2016
RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2008, 2009, 2011
Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2010
Galleries
Whitespace Art, Totnes
Jerram Gallery, Sherbourne
Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge
Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Petworth
Bankside Gallery (Royal Watercolour Society)
Awards
RWS Exhibitions Award 2018
Elected associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society 2018
RWS and David Gluck Award 2017 (Royal Watercolour Society)