Art produced by an artist within the last hundred years is usually known as contemporary art.  The painter Christine Comyn is a excellent example of a modern day contemporary artist.  Treasured art work has typically been reserved for the upper classes but the accessibility of contemporary modern art has given an increase in sales.  

Contemporary modern art has always had a social message and has flirted with the use of strange fabrics and alternative methods.  The rise in popularity is thought to be for these factors as well as increased newspaper and television coverage of art exhibits and awards like the Turner Prize.  Christine Comyn is an artist that has received much critical praise and has a large group of people that love their work.  The painter has been able to get a career by selling her prints and receiving the royalties from the prints which are reproductions of paintings that have been copyrighted.