Christine Montague

Christine Montague is an award-winning realism painter who creates beautiful, haunting and inspiring paintings about the iconic polar bear and its vulnerability to climate change. For the past decade she has used her skills (BFA, BSc.) to create realistic portraits of this highly intelligent, powerful apex predator against backgrounds symbolic to the threat it is under. Colour, canvas and various aesthetics symbolize wonder, hope and warning. Christine's polar bear paintings are in collections worldwide.

Christine accepts custom and portraiture painting commissions, She is based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

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When polar bears were listed on the Species At Risk Act, Montague began her passionate journey of painting polar bears. She uses her portraiture and realism oil painting skills, to document and celebrate the polar bear's character and spirit, its high intelligence (think great ape), and its survival in a world of vanishing sea ice.

Through her travels to the Canadian arctic (Iqaluit & Cape Dorset, Nunavut) and subarctic (Churchill,Manitoba, Canada - polar bear capital of the world), Montague has furthered her knowledge on polar bears and climate change.

In September 2017, "Dark Wa...

OCADU Communication and Design, Toronto, ON, Canada
BFA Studio Art & Art History, Concordia U., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
B.Sc. Biology, Minor in Studio Art & Art History , Concordia University, Montreal

-2025 Merit Award Prize for "Waiting Brightly". Teravarna International Juried Show "Animals"
-2023 Polar Bear Wonder and Warning. Solo Show. Fireside Gallery. Art Gallery of Burlington. Burlington, ON
-2023 Climate Change. Las Laguna Art Gallery. Laguna Beach, California.USA
-2023 Artists Choice.Burlington Fine Arts Association Group Show. Fireside Lounge. Art Gallery of Burlington.
-2023 Home. Burlington Fine Arts Association Group Show. Fireside Lounge. Art Gallery of Burlington.
2022- 2023 Painting John B. Aird Gallery (Virtual). Toronto, ON.
2022 Call of the Wild. Southern California Open Regional Juried Exhibition. SFVACC. Encino CA, USA.
2022 Dundas Valley School of Art 51st Annual Art Auction. Dundas, ON
2022 Waddington’s Auction For Ukraine. Waddington’s. Toronto, ON
2021 Summertime Memories. Elfi Gallery (virtual) Juried Show. 1st prize.
2021 Art a la Carte Juried Show. Ontario Legislature Building. Queen’s Park, Toronto
-May 26 - July 21, 2021. Kefi Gallery Juried Show. (Online due to pandemic.)
-May 1 - 31, 2021 Portraits- People Pets and Polar Bears. Solo show - virtual gallery due to pandemic.
-December 2020- Arts on the Credit Online Virtual Gallery Launch Show
-September 2020 Beaux Arts Gallery Juried Onli...