About

Chris studied Painting at the Birmingham School of Art & Design in the early 70s and gained a BA and MA degree in Fine Art. The strong influence of American abstract painting fused with a more romantic English landscape tradition shaped his work during these formative years.

Chris has also woven the Eastern European roots from his Father’s Polish background into his complex cocktail of inspiration. In 1978 he began to teach Art & Design at Beauchamp College in Leicester and later was Head of Art and Design at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Ashbourne.

In 2015 Chris was awarded first prize in the RBSA Prize exhibition and in 2016 he was elected to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and has exhibited in their Birmingham Gallery since that date. He has also exhibited at Gallerytop in Derbyshire, John Noott Gallery in Broadway, and the Affordable Art Fair Battersea.

“I try to synthesise the landscape around me and use visual elements alongside memories and experiences to convey an emotive response through the act of mark-making and painting. Hopefully, then, the spectator can have an equivalent response.” Ambivalence and apathy to my paintings is my only fear!