Chris Allan painter and printmaker
Paintings
In the past decade I have concentrated on paintings that try to portray nature at close quarters. Not a nature that requires a TV trip to the tropics with David Attenborough, but one that can delight us all in every hedge and ditch, or at the bottom of the garden. I have been inspired by the Dutch flower painters of the 17th century, and by many generations of Japanese artists. The work is all composed in the studio, assembled and layered from a wide range of detailed sketches of the plants and animals that appeal to me pictorially.
Acrylic on linen, laid down on MDF (2005-6), 24 x 37 1/2ins (61 x 95.2cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on MDF (2006-7), 24 x 37 1/2ins (61 x 95.2cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on MDF (2006-8), 24 x 35ins (61 x 95cm).
Acrylic on plywood (2007), 12 x 13 1/2ins (30.5 x 34.3cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on plywood (2007), 11 x 8ins (28 x 20.3cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on plywood (2007), 8 x 11ins (20.3 x 28cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on MDF (2005-2009), 19 1/2 x 30ins (49.5 x 76.2cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on MDF (2008-9), 24 x 32ins (60 x 80cm).
Acrylic on plywood (2008-9), 16 x 24ins (40.6 x 61cm).
Acrylic on plywood (2009), 9 x 18ins (22.9 x 45.7cm).
Acrylic on linen, laid down on panel (2012), 9 1/2 x 5ins (24 x 12.7cm).
Acrylic on board (2014-15), 27 x 16 1/2ins (65.5 x 42cm).
©Chris Allan