IN THE STUDIO
Aside from his art GCSE and
watching the odd instructional video
late at night on YouTube, Chris is
entirely self-taught. He does, however,
like looking at Old Master paintings
up close to see how they were made.
He has a love of the colour palettes
of the Rococo painters, while recent
favourite discoveries include the
works of French Romantic painter
Eugène Delacroix and his friend, the
Turner-esque English artist Richard
Parkes Bonington. “You can’t help but
go to a museum, see loads of great
paintings and then want to get back
into your studio and create something
amazing, and I’m sure subconsciously
everything you see sinks in.”
While the doors of the world’s
museums are temporarily closed and
his own London debut is set to exist
only in the virtual realm for now, Chris
would be forgiven for being a little
downbeat yet he admits his head is
buzzing with new ideas and he is also
proud of the progress he has already
made. “Five years ago, if someone
would’ve told me I would be painting
every day, I wouldn’t have believed
them, no way. I would have thought
the music, being a drummer, that was
it for me forever. Yeah, but you know,
life’s full of surprises.”
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