I shall be exhibiting “HOT DOG”  alongside a mixed selection of canine inspired work by Craigie Aitchison and other artists at the Stoneman Gallery from 18 September – 23 October 2010

Stoneman Gallery
56 Chapel Street
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 4AE

Gallery opening times Monday – Saturday 10.30 – 5.00

details of the 20 paintings featured can be found on my exhibition page

A few pictures from the very well attended Private View on Friday evening, naturally the Damien Hirst attracted a lot of interest…

Summer Exhibition – Part Two runs from 31 July – 12 September 2010

GALLERY OPENING TIMES

Monday – Saturday 10.30am – 5pm

Today i have updated my links and added one to the magnificent Kunstakademie Internationale in Eifel.

The Kunstakademie is currently featuring the retrospective Schirmer 200 Exhibition, with many works celebrating  the great 19th Century landscape painter, along with paintings from selected contemporary German artists including four of mine.

I have recently been informed that the exhibition is a huge success, attracting over 8,000 visitors to date and runs until the end of October.

I am absolutely delighted that I am now being represented by Stoneman Gallery.

Stoneman Gallery, based at 56 Chapel Street, Penzance,  is one of the UK’s most prestigious contemporary galleries, and home to work by artists such as David Hockney, Patrick Heron, Gary Hume and Albert Irvin.  as well as representing the estate of Sir Terry Frost.

SUMMER EXHIBITION – PART TWO

Several of my pieces feature in the current exhibition, alongside work by DAMIEN HIRST RA, MAURICE COCKRILL RA, SANDRA BLOW RA and SIR TERRY FROST RA, amongst others.

Summer Exhibition – Part Two runs from 31 July – 11 September 2010

GALLERY OPENING TIMES

Monday – Saturday 10.30am – 5pm

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After a very busy day and a half I managed to hang all nine paintings at the Truro offices of Worldwide Fiancial Planning.

The main work being “Bright Future” –  the piece especially commissioned for Peter McGahan, the Managing Director of Worldwide – is now proudly hanging in the main reception, along with “Sailing Past Pendennis” and “Walk the Plank”.

I could not have done it without the enthusiastic assistance  of Sarah Howard and Jeannie Cain,  and not forgetting the MD himself, who spent the best part of an hour this morning balanced precariously on the top of a stepladder, taking the full wight of “Gyllyngvase (X)” while I fixed it to the wall.

Here are a few photo’s of the work in situ, including a few of us getting to grips with “Gyllyngvase  (X)” on a first floor stairwell

The move to The Lizard went smoothly last Monday  and the new studio is up and running.

I am sure that the move will produce a lot of exciting new work and I am already working on a couple of commissions, “Bright Future” being  one of them, here are some photo’s taken this evening and yesterday….

During last week’s event I had the opportunity to spend quality time with a lot of my old friends and customers and also had the pleasure of meeting some wonderful new people.

This year people came to see me and my work from all over the UK and  also I had a visit from a delightful family who came from Osaka in Japan, thank you to everyone who took the time to visit me.

Some of my favourite quotes from last week’s visitors:-
“Chris, your paintings blow my mind” – Barry Walker

“Rothko without sunglasses” – Claire Richardson

“Colours so bright they burn your eyes…ideas so sharp they sting your mind” – Beatrice Brown

“Shame that the painting we wanted had been sold” – Chris + Ruth Western

I have been fortunate to sell a lot of paintings which i am sure will bring  joy for many years to come, including one which was not actually for sale., but I did let it go …..

“The Earth is blue…… is beautiful” (2009) 100cm x 40cm acrylic on canvas

Another video by Stephan featuring the essential content of the Schirmer Speech, quite a bit of it about me but
to my shame i do not understand German.

A video clip taken for me of the opening of the Schirmer Exhibition yesterday by my good friend Stephan Everling.

To be included in this exhibition is a great privilege for me as it features some of my paintings alongside work by the fabulous Maf Raderscheidt, and other contemporary German artists, and of course the great 19th c painter himself – Johann Wilhelm Schirmer.

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