Cristine Balarine - The place where mountains are cathedrals _ XL large original abstract painting
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Cristine Balarine, The place where mountains are cathedrals _ XL large original abstract painting, acrylic painting, original, 2025, 110 cm by 145 cm, Italy, hand signed.
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The Place Where Forests Are Cathedrals evokes a presence. It’s less a painting of trees and light than a meditation on what is sacred in the natural world. I see the forest as an architecture of spirit, its pillars rising skyward, canopies forming vaulted ceilings, the silence holding more than absence. Thousands of years be a cathedral, the forest is a space of reverence, where the ordinary act of standing still becomes prayer.
What the painting gestures toward is our ancient, almost forgotten relationship with nature as sanctuary. Long before stone and stained glass, humans found transcendence under branches, rivers, and stars. To walk among these trees is to enter into liturgy without words, to be reminded that sacredness is not confined to buildings but grows out of the soil itself.
The work calls us to remember: reverence is not separate from ecology. To protect forests is not only an act of conservation but of devotion—tending the altar of life itself. In this way, the painting is not simply about beauty or awe, but about belonging. It suggests that we are not visitors to this cathedral; we are part of its congregation, bound to its cycles of light, decay, and renewal.
Seller's Story
Cristine Balarine is a contemporary Brazilian artist based in the Aeolian Islands, Sicily. With a Master’s degree in Architecture from The Bartlett, UCL and a foundation in Florentine Renaissance art history, her multidisciplinary background informs a practice grounded in abstraction, material exploration and spatial deconstruction. Drawing on her Indigenous, African, and European heritage and shaped by life on a remote Sicilian island, Balarine’s work explores the entangled relationships between land, memory and identity, subverting figurative representations of urban and natural realms to reveal lyrical and unreliable narratives of landscapes both distant and familiar.
Balarine’s work has been presented internationally, including a charity exhibition and auction at S otheby’s London in 2024, curated by Dr. Madeleine Haddon of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was the first prize winner of ArtBAM, a competition run by the Munich-based gallery Konsum 163. Finalist in both the London and Florence Biennials in 2023, she has also participated in key global art events such as World Art Dubai and Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair. Her solo exhibitions have been showcased at the Lighthouse Museum in Sicily and at her artist-led gallery in the Aeolian Islands.
Her collaborative practice spans visual art, sound and performance, frequently engaging with musicians and DJs to create cross-disciplinary installations and live interventions. Her ongoing project with OWN! Collective, Fault Lines, brings painting into dialogue with music, forming immersive, synaesthetic spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries between visual and auditory perception.
www. cristinebalarineart .com
The Place Where Forests Are Cathedrals evokes a presence. It’s less a painting of trees and light than a meditation on what is sacred in the natural world. I see the forest as an architecture of spirit, its pillars rising skyward, canopies forming vaulted ceilings, the silence holding more than absence. Thousands of years be a cathedral, the forest is a space of reverence, where the ordinary act of standing still becomes prayer.
What the painting gestures toward is our ancient, almost forgotten relationship with nature as sanctuary. Long before stone and stained glass, humans found transcendence under branches, rivers, and stars. To walk among these trees is to enter into liturgy without words, to be reminded that sacredness is not confined to buildings but grows out of the soil itself.
The work calls us to remember: reverence is not separate from ecology. To protect forests is not only an act of conservation but of devotion—tending the altar of life itself. In this way, the painting is not simply about beauty or awe, but about belonging. It suggests that we are not visitors to this cathedral; we are part of its congregation, bound to its cycles of light, decay, and renewal.
Seller's Story
Cristine Balarine is a contemporary Brazilian artist based in the Aeolian Islands, Sicily. With a Master’s degree in Architecture from The Bartlett, UCL and a foundation in Florentine Renaissance art history, her multidisciplinary background informs a practice grounded in abstraction, material exploration and spatial deconstruction. Drawing on her Indigenous, African, and European heritage and shaped by life on a remote Sicilian island, Balarine’s work explores the entangled relationships between land, memory and identity, subverting figurative representations of urban and natural realms to reveal lyrical and unreliable narratives of landscapes both distant and familiar.
Balarine’s work has been presented internationally, including a charity exhibition and auction at S otheby’s London in 2024, curated by Dr. Madeleine Haddon of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was the first prize winner of ArtBAM, a competition run by the Munich-based gallery Konsum 163. Finalist in both the London and Florence Biennials in 2023, she has also participated in key global art events such as World Art Dubai and Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair. Her solo exhibitions have been showcased at the Lighthouse Museum in Sicily and at her artist-led gallery in the Aeolian Islands.
Her collaborative practice spans visual art, sound and performance, frequently engaging with musicians and DJs to create cross-disciplinary installations and live interventions. Her ongoing project with OWN! Collective, Fault Lines, brings painting into dialogue with music, forming immersive, synaesthetic spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries between visual and auditory perception.
www. cristinebalarineart .com
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Artist
Cristine Balarine
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
The place where mountains are cathedrals _ XL large original abstract painting
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of Origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Yellow
Height
110 cm
Width
145 cm
Weight
1 kg
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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