Christina Cummings

Christina Cummings is a Hampshire based artist, with Northern roots. Her works are mainly created with ‘apothecary acrylics’ using ‘sgraffito’ techniques, where layers are covered, then exposed.


Christina holds a Bachelor of Nursing Degree from the University of Southampton and currently works for the NHS in a busy Acute Medical Unit. A principal theme in Christina’s work is humanity, challenging the ‘everyday routines of our lives and how they can be struck by joy, magic or tragedy’. She is also concerned with the growing issue of social isolation and the gap between the saturation of ideas and the denial of these. This compelling perspective explores how we are laid bare, through life’s lottery, where value is determined by the things we can lose at any moment – our health or standing.


Christina’s paintings reflect this oscillation, acknowledging our vulnerability to the simultaneous tensions between strength and weakness, resilience and reliance. Exploring, through the medium of colour and form, the balance between a primal need to discover our ‘self’ as individual, as pioneer, unearthing our identity and purpose and the craving for partnership where a shared view of the world somehow connects us to our ‘true selves’. ...