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Greetings from Plymouth
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year. I hope 2025 brings you everything you want. I’m on a bit of a mission this year. I’ve been rediscovering my adopted home city of Plymouth. I’ve really enjoyed sketching and painting some of the well known – and less well known parts of this fine city. I want to build on that this year and hope to celebrate Plymouth through my art even more. Plymouth is often overlooked as tourists bypass it en route to Cornwall. I’ve often looked to Cornwall for subject matter myself (and still do) – but there are beautiful and interesting things right under my own nose. I think that’s true for all of us. Let’s retune our senses to appreciate what’s on our own doorsteps this year. We might be pleasantly surprised. There are recent examples of some of my recent Plymouth artworks here at British Craft House.
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Artemis Collective
I’m very pleased to be part of the Artemis Collective, a Plymouth based artists collective. We will be putting on exhibitions throughout the year. I am grateful to them for highlighting my work last year and looking forward to working with them in the year ahead.

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I’m Chris. I’m an artist based in Liskeard, Cornwall

My local area in south east Cornwall is the inspiration for many of my landscape and seascape watercolour paintings. I am becoming increasingly curious about the bits the tourists don’t always see – the urban, the semi industrial, the residential. I am intrigued as to how people have shaped Cornwall, the countryside and the world in general.

Sometimes I like to bring a nostalgic, theatrical or cinematic quality to my work, but very often I will paint something just because I want to. This is particularly true of landscape. I like to make sketches wherever I find myself. Very often these will evolve into paintings of a wide variety of locations. There is a world beyond Cornwall!”

I am a member of a local art group and am currently working towards a BA (Hons) degree in painting, drawing and printmaking at Arts University Plymouth, from where I have been experimenting with new ideas and materials. I have a long association with watercolour, but have recently experimented with oil paint, charcoal, monoprint, aquatint and photo intaglio.

I am also a volunteer with Awenek Studio, a wonderful community arts group, offering art activities and workshops to people in south east Cornwall.

I hope you enjoy browsing examples of my work here at British Craft House.

I am new to British Craft House, but I have collected positive reviews from elsewhere on the web. Click on images to see reviews.

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Greetings from Plymouth

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