The Gallery by the Sea

Christopher studied at Rochester College of Art & Design in the late 1960s. He started painting as a professional artist around 2012, however since moving to Suffolk's Blyth Valley in 2018 Christopher has been inspired by the light and surrounding area.
Working mainly in oils or watercolours his artwork follows the loose impressionist style of Fauvism and the Scottish Colourists, pointing towards light and colour of modern contemporary approaching on the side of abstract. With simplified lines, marks and shapes of both coastline and landscape he is inspired to capture and paint it as an emotional response to the vast East Anglian skies and clouds that drift across the open land and sea.
Putting on the original ground colour he fades back to base in different sections of the painting, incorporating fascinating combinations of contemporary colours with a mixture of scumbled lost and found areas of transparent and opaque paints.
“Formations of clouds moving across the open skies often in stormy weather, give a sense of another place in time and distance, these quick snapshots of views are portrayed within my artwork.”