Cristina Rose

SUBLIME

2011-03-04T17:20:00.000-08:00

Sublime lounge café @ Mokutu and featuring the amazing food with a Norfolk flavour fusion prepared by Shari Bates is opening FRIDAY 11th MARCH.

Also launching on this same night is the art exhibition by Cristina Rose

(that's me!)

Opening night begins at 6pm.

ALL ARE WELCOME.

Come and see the amazing views, tastes, sights and sounds of Norfolk Island.

Mokutu on Stockyard road, Steeles point.

Definitely worth a visit.

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Photos by Cristina Rose

http://norfolkislandweddings.blogspot.com

Celebrate your family occasions

Birthdays

Newborns

Visiting family

Capturing memories

Anywhere on Norfolk Island

All photos put on a disc for you.

$120

Cristina Rose phone +6723 51862

norfolkislandphotos@gmail.com

Resort Paintings

2010-06-06T02:24:00.000-07:00

What better way to give yourself the resort feel but to have a painting that compliments your tropical gardens outside and furnishings inside your house or holiday apartment.

There are constantly changing fashions in redecorating hotels and resorts and of course the design is also decided by the Owner/Managers tastes and the feeling they are trying to convey to their guests and visitors.

10 Years ago, the fashion was for bright florals, especially in Noosa where we lived before Norfolk Island.

Then there is the beachy theme which is a bit more timeless as the colours are present in nature, seascapes and shells are calming and happy as they remind us of summer holidays by the beach.

For the past few years, most redecorating themes have been neutral and minimalistic, those that chose a colour other than white often used chocolate brown, latte and coffee shades or soft apple greens.

Here are some paintings that I did for holiday 'resort' Fletcher Christian Apartments on Norfolk Island.

At the time I matched the other colours in each apartment, the burgundy, country pinks and greens, the natural Norfolk Island timbers as well as the colours and flower forms in the sub tropical gardens that I enjoyed to dig and plant and create in.

Even the room number with blackboard for guests names matched.

I love being given a challenge or something personal to work on.

When someone asks me to paint something for them, I like to see their house and get a feel for the owner's taste in decor before designing for them, this doesn't cost extra, it just gives me a job satisfaction and a more personal idea of what to design.

Here are some of my many paintings from when we lived on the Sunshine Coast before our move to Norfolk Island.

There is no right or wrong, Trends and Fashions will always change, so do what makes you happy.

Underwater Paintings

2010-05-18T02:46:00.000-07:00

I worked at Raw Art Gallery in Hastings street, Noosa, which was a communal artist gallery, this is where 7 artists have their artwork to display, but only work at the outdoor gallery and stall 1 day out of 7.
Your work is displayed everyday by the other artists.

You displayed your work more prominently on your 'gallery day', but could spend the other 6 days painting, it worked quite well.

I was chosen at the gallery from entering my work at the Noosa Regional Gallery outdoor art festivals (my first was back in 2003) and at that time I was painting mostly large colourful florals and a few underwater seascape paintings, but when I started at the gallery, several other artists were floral artists, so I moved into nearly all underwater art on large and medium canvas's.

My work has been bought and displayed all around the world from French villas to Spanish Resorts, also in Doctors surgeries in Sydney.

I also had 3 successful exhibitions in the Noosa Library Foyer.

When we moved to Norfolk Island, I gave away most of my large underwater paintings to the public hospital to decorate the Children's rooms or to fundraise raffle etc.

I approached Bounty Divers owner James Edward about painting a wall for them, but when they moved premises to the Village on Norfolk Island, he devoted a whole wall to my artwork.

These are all available at Bounty divers in the Village, Norfolk Island
or online at http://www.norfolkonlinenews.com/

You can contact me direct via email, CLICK HERE for any inquiries.

My Paintings are now displayed in the dining room of the Norfolk Island Leagues Club and are for sale.

Timeless

2009-12-19T02:50:00.000-08:00

Black and white photography is just that, Timeless.

It can hide a multitude of colour sins and highlight some fascinating features and apart from ever changing fashions, the age and years aren't as noticeable.

Here are some of my B & W Favourites.

Norfolk Reflections

2009-05-15T04:09:00.000-07:00

It is time to add some of my photography to this blog.

On an Island, you can Imagine that we are surrounded by water and in all different form, Crashing waves, rockpools, gentle bays hiding coral reefs, trickling stream and waterfalls.

Brandt, the kids and I spent a late Summer afternoon down at Slaughter bay which is the beach and reef right in front of the convict ruins at Kingston.

It was a magic afternoon and I couldnt stop taking photos.

So now they are here for you to enjoy.

And now in late Autumn, here is the view from the Kingston Pier looking back over slaughter bay and towards Emily bay.

In the late afternoon from anywhere at Kingston, you can watch the Majestic Philip Island and the smaller Nepean Island transform through a myriad of colours.

Kids room paintings inspired by having my own.

2009-02-26T00:24:00.000-08:00

I have changed my style over the years, it still may be recognisable as mine, but I started wanting to decorate the world in children inspired art, especially for bedrooms & children's spaces after I had my own children.

I started working at Raw art Gallery in Noosa when Teddy was about 4 months old (I think).

My Large Florals and Underwater paintings were very successful, but for something different, I came full circle back to bears again, like when I was learning folk art & decorative painting.

One of my displays in Noosa Library's Foyer.

Goldy Sandcastle bear

Daisy Fran
From seeing these pictures, I was lucky to be asked to design a series of elephant paintings for a funky children's clothing shop in Noosa Junction called 'little lola lopp'.

Little Lola Lopp

They had set colour schemes of lime and aqua for the boys and orange and pink for the girls, I painted accordingly.

I thoroughly love being given the colours to work with or to get an idea from looking at the person's house to match their painting to their personality or surrounds.

I especially like putting special touches on paintings for children such as iridescent or metallic paint, glitter and sparkles, texture and beads etc or hiding their name on a leaf. Princess Mirabelle

Wilkes jungle

I have painted many pictures for my children's friends, there are still so many ideas that I have but yet to do....my inspiration hasn't dried up and a large part of me refuses to grow up & do just 'serious' paintings.

So I am sure that I will be doing children's art for many years yet.

My own children are now asking where is my painting? So watch this space for their ones.

The fairy gallery!

CONTACT ME

Really. Where do I start???

2009-02-14T19:42:00.000-08:00

I am Cristina Rose.

It is what my parents named me and I love it, so I use it.

I didn't always love it as when I was young, I couldn't write it, so I changed my name to Kim, it was easier,as everyone automatically puts a 'H' in Cristina also people called me Christine and Chris which definitely ISN'T me, my name was shortened to Tina by the family, though I could be happy as a Cristy now. (It is funny that Brandt had the same problems at school, so changed his name to Johnny!)

So when I started painting in large volumes, I had a dilemma of what to sign my name as, I was breaking away from being 'tiny Tina' or 'Tina pretty ballerina', so reverted back to my now adult name of Cristina at about 19 years old. This was when Brandt and I started dating and were engaged a month later, so I was going to change my last name sometime(nearly 4 years later)

So what do I sign in the meantime?

I was always going to be Cristina Rose from Lyle to McRitchie, I was still Cristina Rose, so that is what I sign.

I have so many sections and types of paintings that I have been doing over the years, that I am finding it hard to make a start on this blog, as I don't have any of my earlier works here and all the photos are on film and still in storage on the sunshine coast.I have found 3 rare photos which I had scanned to use.

Canvas's were hard to find and very expensive, so mine were handmade from calico mostly, not like the Chinese made ready available array available in most shops today.

Most of what I painted was for presents, so I quickly took a snap before I handed it over and never went back to take another 'good' photo on the wall.
My Sister Maria's 30th Birthday painting
Mark & Elle McAllister's wedding present.
Our good friends and Grays point party neighbours, Jonathan & Donna Dockings wedding & housewarming present.

My old Bedroom wall which became the lounge room wall when we extended the house.

I guess that I have to start with my digital photos.

That would be just after Teddy was born in 2003, I painted a few large canvas's for the Noosa regional art gallery outdoor art exhibition.

That was where I was noticed and picked up at Raw art gallery in Noosa's Hastings street (also with thanks to the positive urgings of my can-do friend Jenny Campbell).

So I will start here.

I had started my 'day' at Raw art, which was an artists gallery run by 7 artists on a rotational system, you worked one long day and displayed every ones work, but yours more prominently on your own day, your work was displayed for 7 days by the other artists too.

I changed my style from large flowers, so as not to be too similar to the other artists work to my adored style of underwater paintings, inspired first by snorkelling in Emily bay, Norfolk Island then by a workshop with Lorraine Dick in Corrimal.

After having Children, I painted kids room paintings for some children's clothing shops in Noosa, so went along those lines and still do.

Brandt built me a fantastic studio in the bush at the back of our property on the Sunshine coast accessible by wooden boardwalk style walkways, but as they children were small, I couldn't go out there for long periods of time as I needed to be near the house for them.

Now I am wishing for a studio again, I am back painting in the yard and house, but the kids have picked up bits and pieces from me painting around them in the house and they are both arty so I guess that is a good thing.

Welcome to my creative journey.

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2 years ago when we moved to Norfolk Island from the Sunshine coast, I began a blog of our new life here, http://norfolkheavenonearth.blogspot.com/ as my Aunty Mary also has a blog http://devonhouse.blogspot.com/.

Heaven on Earth now has 115 postings, but I have refrained from placing my paintings on, as I think they deserve a blog of their own.

So here is my blog to especially showcase past paintings that were created when I taught decorative painting classes at Grays point when I was in my mid 20's and large Canvas's that I painted in Noosa when I worked at Raw Art Gallery, an artist run community gallery in Hasting street, Noosa. Plus any new ones that are created here.

My style has evolved from country flowers and teddy bears to bright tropical flowers then underwater seascapes to (ironically) having children and back to teddy bears and other kids paintings.

I haven't had much of a chance to paint here in Norfolk Island due to work and family commitments, I found photography as a more instant & prolific diversion instead.

Now, I feel that I can make up for lost time and my creative energies are flowing again.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments on my email beeceeteeandess@hotmail.com

Have a happy day!

Cristina Rose