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 magazine June 2024.