Christine Callum Mcinally

I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. I studied Illustration and Printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.At that time, my work was very detailed and mainly from direct observation due to the traditional training we received at Dundee. I Illustrated a number of books on a free lance basis and then trained as a teacher of Art and Design in order to make a living. I worked in Scottish high schools until a few years ago, while at the same time I continued to draw and paint. Now I spend more time painting as well as helping to run the family business. My work has changed radically from linear detail to larger expressive colour to thin layers in subtle oils. Figurative work in the form of drawing and life painting interests me as well as landscape and seascape. History of Art has been a brilliant learning tool for me. I try to absorb techniques and find it constantly engaging to aim toward finding my own style.
Visiting all the major galleries in Europe, I have been influenced by a wide range of artists. From Egon Shiele, Picasso, Bonnard, Matisse, Sorolla, Lucien Freud, Diebenkorn, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, the list is endless but each of them have had an impact on the way I see and the way I paint. I draw and paint from ...

Lasswade High School, Lasswade, Midlothian.
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. DA Illustration and Printmaking.
Dundee College of Education. SEC. Teaching certificate.
Open University. Social Science Foundation Course.
Workshops on a regular basis to study life drawing and painting with a number of Scottish and European artists, eg Alan McGowan and Eugenie Vronskaya. I continue to develop my practice becoming more confident in what my aims are. At present, I am using collage to increase the drama and emotion in my painting and I am trying to combine figures together with a believable force of human life. Playing a little with abstraction, reducing detail and going for a simplification of the truth.

PAI Mixed Exhibition May/June 2023 Maclaurin Gallery Ayr, ScotlandMixed Summer Show Solo Gallery, Innerleithen. July 2019
Online Solo Gallery, Innerleithen Oct 2020-2021
Spring Exhibition Eion Stewart Gallery Stonehaven 2018


Spring exhibition Art at The Grange, Milngavie, Glasgow.2013
Tore art gallery, Inverness summer 2014
Eden Court, Blink gallery Inverness Autumn 2015
La haut sur la montagne, Gstaad Saanen, Switzerland Winter 2015

Artexposure Gallery, Glasgow Autumn/Winter 2016