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Chris grew up in Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast. Much of his work draws from the landscape around Flamborough Head, Bempton Cliffs and Spurn Point; where the prevailing north easterly wind has forced the hedgerows to grow at strange angles, providing permanent evidence of the wind's direction.Â
Latterly he has used the tidal flats of Scotland’s Galloway coast to inform his work.
Hot wax and caustic soda is used with lino to make relief plates. The plates are overlaid to print layers of transparent colour to produce images which focus on horizons punctuated with vertical and curved structures.
Training
1984-85, Hull College of Art - Foundation Course
1985-88, University of Leeds (Bretton Hall) - BA, Fine Art
1988-89, Manchester Metropolitan University - PGCE
1998-2000, Leeds Metropolitan University, MA Fine Art, Printmaking
I have taught Art at St Peter's School, York for over 30 years, where I specialise in printmaking.​