Star Portraits

This is Christina Sealey, or more commonly known to us as Christie. I've been looking forward to featuring Christie here because I am consistently blown away by the amount of talent she possesses. Christie is one of the most sensitive and gentle souls I've ever met, and it really comes through in her work.

Christie is a painter (as well as being a successful musician) and her portraits, especially, are phenomenal. They are extremely evocative and usually, at least I find, full of warmth. And I think that's due in part to her delicate nature. She seems to have the innate ability to draw out a real softness from all of her subjects.
But, I'm not an expert on art so I don't know if that even makes sense. All I really know that is her work is effing gorgeous.
Christie is pretty awesome all-around. She brings cake to the beach. It's infectious when she gets excited about things. She's got a pretty rad collection of shoes. And she lends her friends beautiful paintings to hang in their homes and acts like they are doing her a favour!




Her studio on James North is pretty bare these days. A lot of her work is going into her latest solo show, Placing Within: Paintings by Christina Sealey, opening this Friday at Earl's Court Gallery at 215 Ottawa Street North. It runs until April 17th and I encourage you to check it out. Christie is exactly what all this Hamilton artistic renaissance buzz is all about.



































