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| GALLERY TO SHOW OFF WORK BY AWARD WINNING ARTIST |
| Paintings and sculptures based on concerns over global warming and climate change. |
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| The Press and Journal |
| By Jenny Sutherland, 14 Sep 2007 |
| A selection of paintings and sculptures capturing climate change were unveiled at Auchterarder last night. The works by Fanny Lam Christie were previewed at The Ruthven Gallery in Perthshire. |
| Mrs Christie based her work on concern over global warming and climate change. She hopes that through her artwork she can encourage observers to be more concerned about environmental issues. Mrs Christie said "My work captures the powerful forces of storms and flooding. The painting, Flow II, is a powerful image of gushing water through a wind damaged woodland." |
| She added that many of her bronze sculptures were made from recycled industrial machinery waste parts. "The durability of bronze is a permanent reminder of the problem of climate change and the need to deal with it and restore what is left of our natural environment." |
| In 2006, Mrs Christie was awarded the N.S. MacFarlane Charitable Trust Award by the Royal Scottish Academy for her sculpture, Storm. Her latest sculptures, Storm II and Upstream II have been accepted for the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 146th annual exhibition in October. |
| The exhibition opens today and Mrs Christie's work will run alongside other leading and emerging Perthshire-based artists, including Kyley Campbell, Margaret Evans, Jean Feeney, Suzanne Mitchell-Henry, Arie Vardi and Ann Wegmuller. |
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| © DC Thomson, Press and Journal. |
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© The Ruthven Gallery 2007. |