Trying to capture the the three di­men­sion­al expanse of the Dales land­scape onto a flat support.

Chris moved from East Anglia to the Dales at the beginning of the Covid lockdown and eventually settled in Long Preston in 2021. He has now built himself a small studio from which he is starting to sustain a working practice exploring the atmosphere and beauty of the Dales and the Ribble Valley. While he insists his first love is painting the landscape, he admits to being a bit of a butterfly when it comes to inspiration and has been pursuing a wide variety of subjects using a broad spectrum of media, oil, acrylic, watercolour, ink, pastel and charcoal. Chris believes that any subject is worthy of scrutiny, the landscape and nature, still life or the human form can all be equally inspiring as well as the extensive variety of artists that he admires. Most of his newer work has been made with acrylic paint on paper or card but he has been busy preparing supports for some new oil paintings by using rabbit skin glue to fix old worn out bed linen to board in the manner of the 18th & 19th century Norwich School artists.

Article taken from the Long Preston Parish Magazine 2024

Exhibitions

Dec/Jan 2014/5

The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk

Open exhibition

August 2015

Eye Church Suffolk

Open Summer exhibition

April 2016

Burgh House, Hampstead, London

Group exhibition

October 2016

Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Group Exhibition

November 2016

The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

Open exhibition

February 2017

Burgh House, Hampstead, London

Group exhibition

December 2020

Craven Arts Christmas Exhibition

The Hub Skipton

Group Exhibition

Gargrave Art Exhibition

2023

2024

2025

2026

Craven Arts House

2021-26

Courses and Workshops

February 2013

West Dean College Sussex

Foundation oil painting.

February-March 2014

UCL Slade drawing evening classes

May 2014

Portrait painting Adele Wagstaff West Dean College.

Life drawing London Drawing Liverpool Street

Drawing Princes Drawing School Hackney

April 2017

Life painting in oils Andy Pankhurst Royal Drawing School Oxford Street London

October 2017

Etching Sudborne Park Printmakers Orford Suffolk

Start OCA Degree course Fine Art (Hons)

May 2018

Portrait in oils Adele Wagstaff West Dean College Sussex

August 2018

Etching Sudborne Park Printmakers Orford Suffolk

November 2019

Portrats in oils Adele Wagstaff West Dean Sussex