Statement
Born into a family of actors, I grew up surrounded by props, plays, puppets, performers and artists. My
mum took me to galleries and exhibitions, and so art, and looking at art was always part of my life.
Life for me is about learning, and experiencing, and I have done well at that. When I was growing up the
idea that you made decisions based on the level of power or money you would gain was considered an
immoral attitude, and in some way a betrayal of the higher human functions, the true meaning of life.
Due to this moral upbringing I made decisions based on honesty, personal motive, creativity and exploring
experience, only to later discover that very few people around me operated that way.
Still I can not betray what I see to be right and true, and I see this as a fundamental condition for making
art. So being an artist is what I am, whatever I do, in the sense that it is an exporation of perception,
experience, and an honest and spontaneious response to it.
These paintings represent my response to coming home to Lincolnshire in 2008 and realizing that man
made things are loud, full of tension, and that cities are a product of a level of self absorbtion that has been
indulged to the point of obsenity.
I felt a strong need to get away from all that and become absorbed back onto nature. Painting is a process
of absorbtion, and having a subject which is real and outside of you helps you not become self absorbed.
And if that subject is nature, and is not entirely manufactured that helps too.
I hope I can continue this absorbtion in the quieter nature, and that the paintings become a window
allowing people to remember and access a part of themselves, which is quiet, private, subtle, and essential
in making us what we are.
In this, perhaps they have a potency and a justification.
Please support me in this work.
Thank you
Chris