390 LINES OF TIME 12.2014 by ANNE CHRISTOPHER

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART, LONDON

 THE LINES OF TIME

 
 The Royal Academy of Art and its courtyard in Piccadilly currently throng with art lovers who have come from far and wide to see Painting the Modern Garden: from Monet to Matisse.

If you want to experience something exciting and spacious and elegant without jostling crowds, go up the magnificent central staircase, turn right and take a U turn on this floor. Outside the Reynolds Room you will find yourself in a small quiet  gallery lined with Ann Christopher's exquisite drawings, executed in pastel, crayon and graphite. The work on display was completed during a residency in Southern France, near Albi.She describes the forms represented as originating from her experience of the “ever-changing effects of the climate and light on the landscape” in that area.

Book cover

Ann Christopher is also well known as a non-figurative  sculptor. who works primarily in cast bronze, stainless steel, silver and fabricated Corten steel. I featured her elegant and understated work in Blog 114.  Dark Line was seen at York Way by Regent's Canal, and was part of a complex including the Pangolin Gallery, music venues, cafes and bars. And a sculpture trail. 
  
Ann Christopher rarely draws when she is sculpting; her works on paper tend to develop between sculptural projects. She observes that this is a natural, almost involuntary, process, finding that 'a series of drawing will suddenly end and sculpture will start again'. 


The Royal Academy is publishing a new book Ann Christopher A few days ago I heard her talk about her work when she was  interviewed by the art critic Richard Cork, who has written an introduction to the book.