Christine was born in Lancashire and spent her early life in rural Cheshire. She specialised in ceramics and textile design at college before joining the teaching profession.

Teaching and bringing up her family took up much of the next phase of her life, but she still found time to paint in watercolours.

A move to Shaldon, some fourteen years ago was to change the course of her work, Christine started to paint in acrylics and her work became more stylised, interpreting her local surroundings onto canvas.