Ten years ago the people who appeared in my work represented a family, real and imagined. Through them I searched for experiences - past, present and future - which are both widely shared and intensely personal. The medium I used to express this human interaction was founded on the eternal qualities of oil and water, embracing or rejecting in an infinite variety of ways. Today those sacred people are still in my paintings, but the intervening chain of events has meant that they are no longer recognisable in quite the same way – although the materials which honoured them have not changed.

Press Release

Winner: Art Book Award 2009

Angaza Afrika: African Art Now by Chris Spring, published by Laurence King (£25.00 paperback, 350 colour illustrations, 336 pages ISBN 13: 978-1-85669-548-0).

Author Chris Spring, curator of the African galleries at the British Museum, has selected 60 thoughtful and creative contemporary artists working now not only in Africa, but also Europe and North and South America, including the Caribbean. Their work challenges our preconceived notions of Africa and its art on many levels.

If you would like to receive any further information, please contact:

Lewis Gill
lewis@laurenceking.com
tel: 0207 841 6900

Open Studio 2012

Boat Race Day: Saturday 7th April

My studio and other artists' studios will be open from 12 -5pm

Come and join us!