Qualifications
1996-7
University of Brighton PGCE Secondary Art and Design
1983-86
Liverpool Polytechnic BA (Hons) Degree Fine Art
1981-83
Mansfield College of Art & Design. DATEC Diploma in General Art & Design
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Chris started drawing and painting alongside his elder sister. Later he developed an interest in art
and artists, and would buy and study books about painters through history. He was very inspired by
Bruegel, Rembrandt, Renoir, Dali, and Giorgio de Cirico.
At 14 he moved to an area where there were many local artists, and was inspired by watching them
work.
After leaving school he attended a two-year Art and Design course in Mansfield, and greatly
developed his understanding of drawing under Trevor Ellis and Dennis Tapsal.
He became fascinated by the use of paint as an abstract medium and took to an expressionistic
approach to his work, "dancing" rather than painting the colour onto large surfaces. He left
Mansfield to study fine Art in Liverpool where he gained his BA (Hons) in 1986. Influences during
this period were Frankenthaler, Miro, and Graham Sutherland.
In Liverpool Chris explored the philosophy of Art, as well as installation, and a multi-media
approach using 2d paintings with 3d objects, film, lighting, inflatables, etching, ceramics, and resin
constructions.
Over the last ten years he has been a student of Vipassana meditation, and influenced by the “as it
is” approach of vipassana has developed a more direct observational style of painting.
Chris wants his work to remain above all honest. He does not want to become seduced by the paint
or by the idea fo landscape painting. He feels that his journey of exploration has left him more
committed to this simple and direct approach.
By not using imagination, but just direct perception, his aim is to create a “space” for the viewer to
enter.
Past exhibitions
2010
Solo Show
16th Jan – 28th Feb
Newark Millgate Museum
48 Millgate Newark NG24 4TS
2009
The Cambridge Art Fair 5th - 7th June
Chilford Hall Vineyard, Linton,
Represented by the Enid Lawson Gallery
AAF Bristol May 15th - 17th
Represented by the Enid Lawson Gallery
Solo Exhibition May 6th - June 20th
Trinity Arts
Trinity Street, Gainsborough, Lincs.
DN21 2AL.
Closed Sundays
Lincolnshire Artists Society group exhibition
4th May - 13th June
Beverly Art Gallery, Champney road, Beverly
HU17 8HE
Solo show 7th March 09 - 30th April 09
Newark Millgate Museum
48 Millgate Newark NG24 4TS
Private Commission painting in Somerset
March 15th - 21st
2008
LAS (Lincolnshire Artists Society)
Oct 28 - Nov 23 2008
Patchings Gallery Patchings Art Centre
Solo Exhibition Oct 11 - Oct 31 2008
Galerie 18 Kirkgate Newark-on-Trent,
NAOS
Newark Area Open Studios accompanying exhibition
Sept 29 - Nov 06 2008
Milgate museum Newark on Trent