FOR THE ART OF IT
A hillside at dawn, two artists, two mediums - and a conversation that begins with the same landscape and ends somewhere entirely different.
For the Art of it is a new collaborative collection by Northland jeweller Christine Price, bringing together handcrafted fine jewellery and visual art through a shared creative response to place, memory, and fleeting moments of beauty. The inaugural collaboration pairs Christine with Richard Cranenburgh of Art Northland, an artists known for his expressive landscapes and ability to distil mood, colour and feeling from the natural world. Their shared starting point is a landscape both know intimately. From different vantage points, Christine and Richard look across the same native bush-clad hill range. The moment that inspired the first work, The Hour Before, came during the stillness before dawn. A ribbon of mist drifted across the hills while muted greens, lavender tones and the first traces of gold light emerged across the landscape. Christine responded by handcrafting a pair of earings composed of one hundred natural gemstones. Working from the same moment, Richard created an original painting that offers a parallel interpretation. For more of Christine's work follow the link above.
