Christabel Forbes

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Emerging Artist
Christabel Forbes is a colourist who explores the effect of human existence on spaces and vice versa.
Her works merge reality and imagination, creating self-contained worlds of colour and shape.
Christabel teaches painting and drawing throughout Europe.

Christabel Forbes is a colourist who explores the powerful interaction between people and places. Her individual treatment of landscape is unmistakably her own. Born in 1991 in Courbevoie, outside Paris, the now London-based artist creates purely through observational drawings. She later transforms these works relating to her surroundings with liberal mark-making and imaginative colour play to evoke people and places.

Christabel Forbes’ Practice

Christabel trained at The Royal Drawing School after achieving a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth University. Christabel is also a teacher. In her work, as in her teaching, she tries to maintain a level of playfulness and spontaneity. The artist has a strong interest in reality and imagination and subsequently uses her art to re-imagine everyday scenes, curating new, expressionistic spaces full of life and colour.

Career and Awards

Christabel has established a portfolio of residencies and teaching experiences in the UK and abroad. Her works feature in private and public collections such as in The Royal Collection and Sir Michael Moritz's Heyman Foundation. She was also awarded the Wedlake Bell Award for Young Artist at the Chelsea Art Show (2018).

Christabel Forbes Artworks

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    Winter in Hyde Park no6 by Christabel Forbes
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    Winter in Hyde Park no6 by Christabel Forbes

    Winter in Hyde Park no6

    Drawings - 14x20 cm
    Autumn Colours by Christabel Forbes
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    Autumn Colours by Christabel Forbes

    Autumn Colours

    Drawings - 20x25 cm
    Winter in Hyde Park no7 by Christabel Forbes
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    Winter in Hyde Park no7 by Christabel Forbes

    Winter in Hyde Park no7

    Drawings - 13x18 cm
    Winter in Hyde Park no1 by Christabel Forbes
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    Winter in Hyde Park no1 by Christabel Forbes

    Winter in Hyde Park no1

    Drawings - 14x20 cm
    Relaxing in the Garden by Christabel Forbes
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    Relaxing in the Garden by Christabel Forbes

    Relaxing in the Garden

    Drawings - 21x30 cm
    Dancing Trees by Christabel Forbes
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    Dancing Trees by Christabel Forbes

    Dancing Trees

    Drawings - 21x30 cm
    Winter in Hyde Park no5 by Christabel Forbes
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    Winter in Hyde Park no5 by Christabel Forbes

    Winter in Hyde Park no5

    Drawings - 14x20 cm
    Kew in Colour, Sitting by the Lake by Christabel Forbes
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    Kew in Colour, Sitting by the Lake by Christabel Forbes
    Winter in Hyde Park no3 by Christabel Forbes
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    Winter in Hyde Park no3 by Christabel Forbes

    Winter in Hyde Park no3

    Drawings - 14x20 cm
    Lilac Light by Christabel Forbes
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    Lilac Light by Christabel Forbes

    Lilac Light

    Drawings - 19x28 cm
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    Orange Man Relaxing on a Bench by Christabel Forbes
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    Relaxing in the Park by Christabel Forbes

    Relaxing in the Park

    Drawings - 21x25 cm
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    Winter in Hyde Park no2 by Christabel Forbes

    Winter in Hyde Park no2

    Drawings - 14x20 cm

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