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CHRISTINE MONTAGUE
Burlington, Ontario - Canada


Polar Bear Art


Original Artworks (7)

Christine Montague; In The Northern Lights, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 18 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241 A polar bear s solitary journey is spotlit - as if flash frozen- in the stunning green light of the aurora borealis.  The conditions are perfect for our polar bear , the sea is frozen, so necessary for its success to travel, mate and hunt.I use a powerful ...
Christine Montague
Original Oil Painting, 2021
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
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Christine Montague; Northern Lights Knapsack, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241 Polar bear cubs stay with their mothers for over two years. She feeds her cub, teaches it how to survive, and fiercely protects it from other bears. She must also be patient, for this highly intelligent bear cub loves to play and climb, and just like with ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2021
24 x 18 inches (61.0 x 45.7 cm)
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Christine Montague; Polar Bear On The Move, 2014, Original Painting Oil, 12 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241 Beautiful big polar bear moves gracefully on his solitary journey in the arctic night.  My art work is always about climate change as well as about tribute to these magnificent bears.  This marine bear is walking in the frozen sea - so necessary to his life for hunting, ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2014
12 x 20 inches (30.5 x 50.8 cm)
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Christine Montague; Crossing Paths With Polar Bear, 2014, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 40 inches. Artwork description: 241 Big polar bear walking your way.  This may or may not, have a happy ending. . .  but he ll look great on your wall greeting your guestswho I am sure will have a wonderful time.  Oil on canvas.  White painting continues around edge.  Wired , ready for hanging.  Certificate ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2014
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
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Christine Montague; Starry Night Polar Bear, 2014, Original Painting Oil, 16 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241  polar bears, polar bear, bears, wildlife, nature,aurora borealis, northern lights, Van Gogh, Starry night, stars, oil painting, wildlife painting, blue , portrait, painting of a polar bear ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2014
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
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Christine Montague; Polar Bear Portrait Study 1, 2015, Original Painting Oil, 12 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 beautiful polar bear face study in oil.  He almost looks wistful, doesn t he ...
Christine Montague
Original Oil Painting, 2015
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
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Christine Montague; Shopping On Main Street, 2010, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241 Realistic figurative landscape scenic figurativeoil painting of a young woman teenager in summer clothes shopping on Main Street on a beautiful summer day.  Beautiful colors.  Bright blue sky, red flowers, red car....
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Original Oil Painting, 2010
24 x 24 inches (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
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Artist Statement

Christine Montague is a professional award winning visual artist known for her portraiture commissions, figurative landscape art, and polar bear oil paintings.

Why polar bears The character and spirit of the bears, their high intelligence think great ape, their solitary lifestyle, excellent mothering skills, their place in our world, and the very landscape they wander in, embodies all that I have tried to represent in my other artworks - spirit, character, intelligence, personality, solitude without loneliness, discovery, mindfulness, joy, beauty, escape.

Travels to the Canadian arctic Iqaluit Cape Dorset in Nunavut and subarctic Churchill,Manitoba, Canada - polar bear capital of the world and my stay at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, furthered my education and wonder for these magnificent bears and the magical landscape and skyscape - the northern lights.

Polar bears are definitely a canary in the coal mine symbol of climate change and my polar bear paintings often symbolize this potential for great loss as their numbers reduce. The effect vanishing ice has on the survival of the polar bear resulted in my series such as the Sink Swim Series.

But other works simply pay tribute to this wonder animal in its magical, mysterious environment of frozen plain, icy cliffs, endless tundra and spiritual magical lights.

Montague is a a self representing artist with over 10 years experience in owning an open studio gallery in an arts destination. Primarily I sell my art online, portraits, figurative work, and now polar bear paintings are in collections in Canada, U.S.A., Great Britain and Bermuda.

Her paintings have been in over 50 shows, many of them juried.

Recently, her polar bear painting Dark Water 1 was awarded top prize in the CNE Juried Show in Toronto, Canada.

Montague lives in the greater Toronto area with her husband, children, and two cats one is named Bear, and a growing celebration of imaginary polar bears.

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