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CHRIS FORSEY

Chris began his art career as an illustrator in a publisher's studio after studying art and graphics in Bristol. He is a self taught watercolour painter, constantly trying to extend and add to his skills in water-based media. He has exhibted on numerous occasions with the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. Chris has developed his watercolour painting techniques towards a mixed-media approach, combining watercolour, acrylic, pastel and gouache. He says, he is exhilarated by colour and surface and enjoys creating textured layers of dry-brushed colour that allow hints of complementary hue to glow through, creating an exciting surface of scattered, broken colour. Chris specialises in landscape subjects, exploring the themes of man-made alongside the organic: buildings by water; structure emerging from a rocky cliff, sometimes with figures contributing to this theme, inhabiting the middle ground between buidings and the wildness of nature. He is inspired by the downland, coastal scenes of the Uk and the Mediteranean, cafe life and townscapes. He captures the sense of a place at a specific moment, season or time of day, always endeavouring to bring passion and immediacy to his work. Chris was awarded the prestigious F DONALD BLAKE AWARD for a contemporary watercolour by the LINCOLN JOYCE gallery in 2006 at the RI spring exhibition and also THE MATT BRUCE MEMORIAL AWARD for light and colour at the 2007 RI exhibition.

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