"Christine Capelle was born in Brussels, Belgium where she studied drawing and etching and where she received a diploma in Art History and Archeology from Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Her love of travel and interest in art and old monuments led her to explore the world for a while, in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Algeria, and Cambodia, which is reflected in her work through memories of these travels, landscapes seen, artifacts admired, temples explored, diffused light on dazzling colors.

"Drawing, painting has always been a passion for me, almost a necessity.  I love the feel of the pen on paper, the spread of the color as it changes and mixes, and becomes a painting.  If watercolors are the basis of much of my work, my favorite techniques include collage of interesting papers, use of acrylic medium with sand or flakes, oil pastels and pencil.  In a certain way a painting paints itself, it appears slowly; I just help it realize itself on paper, sometime carefully, with mindful purpose, other times rapidly, always joyfully.

"My purpose is first pictorial.  I find my inspiration in the diffuse morning light, the blinding summer sun, the orange explosion of sunset, the subtle grays and blues of the city at dusk.  If I have a message it is in shapes and colors; I don't look for the literal, I care little for the fashion of the day.  I am more interested in the effects of color and light and less concerned about creating a recognizable picture.

"In the words of Wassily Kandinsky: 'The artist must be blind to distinction between "recognized" or "unrecognized" conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. He must watch only the trend of the inner need, and hearken of its words alone.' "