Watercolor Artist - USA (2020-04)

ArtistsNetwork.com 39

Meet the Artist

Christopher Forsey (chrisforsey.com)

has been widely exhibited throughout

the U.K. and has won prizes for his work

at the Mall Galleries, London. Forsey was

elected a member of the Royal Institute

of Painters in Water Colours in 2010. He

has been tutoring and teaching for 15

years and enjoys giving lively and

informative painting demonstrations.

The artist teaches painting courses and

leads artistic holidays in the U.K. and

abroad and has been featured in British

and European art magazines. He’s a

regular contributor to The Artist for

mixed-media watercolor and acrylic

painting and has published four

instructional painting DVDs. Forsey

believes in getting to know the painting

subject through observation, sketching

and photography; careful planning of

composition and color; and in working

quickly and expressively in the studio.

subject matter—hence my liking of Impressionism,
Fauvism and Turner. I also like abstract work.” Th ese are
some of the reasons why his favorite painting of his own
is Frosted Riverbank (opposite), a slightly abstracted land-
scape featuring a palette that he favors.

NEVER STOP EXPLORING

Forsey’s attachment to music continues to this day. “I play
the guitar and have thought often about the relationship
between music and painting,” he says. “I play music with
another fi ne artist, and we often discuss accent colors in
painting and in musical sounds. Whistler used the same
words to name his nocturnes as composers did working
in the same era.”

Whether it be art or music, Forsey is driven by the

need to push boundaries. “I want to allow my style to

develop,” he says. “I get bored with doing the same things

day after day and like to experiment. So, I need to allow

myself to step away a little from my usual approach and

try new things. In fi ve years, I want to be painting with

an even more expressive style, larger and with more

abstraction in the work, but still based on landscape

inspiration. It’s my prime purpose.” Forsey’s is the kind

of restless energy common to explorers in many fi elds,

and his paintings will surely refl ect that kind of bound-

less creativity. WA

London-based Louella Miles (writers4management.com) is

a writer, publisher and an “artist in any spare time.”