
- The High Huts
- Oil on Board
- 40 w x 30 h (cm)
- Framed
- £ 795
Chris loves cartooning and likes to give the viewer a grin! His paintings feature a gaunt man with his dog Darcy as they visit North Norfolk landmarks.
Originally a qualified illustrator and trained graphic designer, Chris now paints full time from his studios in Bedfordshire and Norfolk. He grew up with a huge interest in cartooning and cites artists such as Paul Sample, Gray Jolliffe and Ralph Steadman as having an early influence on his work. He has been interested in drawing for most of his life and always keeps sketchbooks.
Chris likes to visit the places he wants to paint in the first instance, then works in oil on panel to create the final artwork and his paintings feature a gaunt owner and his faithful Jack Russell (Barton Darcy). All his paintings come with humorous 'ditties' - small four-line poems about the world as the dog sees it. The poems themselves evolve from the annotations of his initial sketches, which he then uses to paint the scene using oil on panels back in his workroom.
Oh, and he likes to visit the Norfolk coast for a beer and inspiration when time and finance allows....