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| Christopher English | |
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I was born in 1950 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Started work in a drawing office in 1970, for a Harrogate company of chemical combustion engineers. I wrote poems in my spare time. Also I started to paint expressionistic and symbolist narrative type pictures of my poetry in oil colour. In order to follow my interest in painting I did Fine Art degree at the School of Art and Design at Loughborough University. |
| About the Artist | |
I show the symbolic images in my paintings as a complement to the imagery evoked in my poems. Ideas for the symbolism in my art derive from my poetry. I start a painting with a combination of several images from a poem. Discovery and suggestion from my imagination emerge during the painting process and are a supplement to the poetry. |
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Transparent Lies
2006 |
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| My painting is about a sailor returning to harbour. He is holding flowers to give to his lover on shore. In the boat behind the sailor is another lover. Both women are pregnant.
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Gypsies outside their ramshack
2005 |
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Forest of Trapeze Swings
2004 |
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| Symbolic landscape |
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Flowers growing through Chains
2004 |
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| I want to show the idea of change, where we see through, and grow through the changes of life. Yet at the same time we are shackled and anchored in chains were nothing much changes ( i.e.-we live in a physical three dimensional space, existing on a planet). Flowers represent our inner self, with changes of spiritual development. Where as in the exterior life we only have the one body. |
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Door Face - Shield Face
2003 -04 |
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A Duel. Field of long shadow
2003 |
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| Metamorphic landscape |
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The Anchor and Kite
2003 |
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A Rocking Horse at Boarding Sc
2003 |
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| Reminiscences of my childhood at boarding school |
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| Education and biography | |
| I was made redundant from work in 1985. I decided that there was no point continuing in a drawing office and 'engineer' environment. So, at the age of 35 I became a mature art student. First, I did a foundation course in art and design at Harrogate Art College. I then went on to do a Fine Art painting degree at the School of Art and Design at Loughborough University where I graduated in 1994. That same year I participated in a national collective art exhibition at the Alexander Palace, North London. Shortly after I shared an art studio with a group of artists in Loughborough for a while, until I had a severe femur and pelvis fracture. During recovery, after a long stay in hospital, I started to make my art web site & compiled my book of my poems & art work. I would like to mention my art activities before art school, while I was working full time, during the 1970s & early 1980s. I participated in many poetry readings and writers' workshops in Yorkshire. Participated in collective art exhibitions at the Arcade Gallery. Harrogate, some times part of the Harrogate Arts Festival. Also participated in the Bradford Arts Festival, part of a collective exhibition at the Community Arts Centre, Little Germany, Bradford. I have had my poetry and paintings published in several art anthologies and magazines in the Uk, America and India. Also on many art web sites over the years. At present I am a member of Loughborough ARTSPACE, a collective group of artists that exhibit as a group each year. Because I had produced my own web site I also started the Artspace web site. I have taken part in many ARTSPACE group exhibitions in recent years. |
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| I intend to continue to exhibit my paintings as much as possible. |
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| Website: easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~c.english/index.html | |
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