b/w mezzotint
2001
5 3/4 x 5 3/4
edition: 30
signed in pencil
Christine Ravaux was born in Charleroi in 1961. She studied printmaking at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and the Etterbeek Academy of Arts where she learned more specifically the black way in the workshops of Mauritius Pasternak and Anne Dykmans. She received the Prix du Hainaut in 1994 and the prize of the 1997 annual competition in artistic creation of the Royal Academy of Letters, Sciences and Beaux-Arts of Belgium. Ravaux's mezzotints mirror her surroundings. She has portrayed the black hills that dot the landscape of the Belgian mining city in which she lives and has captured the shadows and shapes created by the grasses and trees of her own backyard. Her close-up look at the ordinary things around her are just as effective when viewed as abstract compositions of form and light. Her work was awarded the first prize at IBIZAGRAFIC ’92, the prestigious Spanish Biennial which prompted a solo exhibition of her mezzotints and the publication of a monograph. In 1994, Ravaux was selected for inclusion in Intergafia ’94 – World Award Winners Gallery in Katowice, Poland. She died in 2021
