Jeannine Williamson, for Sussex Life

Excerpt from Jeannine Williamson, Sussex Life

Christopher’s last major exhibition in 2023 was at London’s Osborne Studio Gallery. It included a trademark Arctic ‘eight-footer’, which again required a small team to manoeuvre it into place. In his preface to the brochure, James Hamilton commented the exhibition was akin to inserting a ‘ship in a bottle into the domestic proportions’ of the gallery.

The exhibition also included more than 50 canvases of the beach at Climping, one of his favourite locations when he’s working in Sussex; where once again he returns to the same spot in all weathers and seasons to record the changing light. Measuring around a foot, they are among Christopher’s smallest works.

‘They are not the pieces I am known for,’ admits Christopher who prefers the ‘physical impact, kinetic energy and scale of the idea’ portrayed in much of his work and admires artists such as American abstract painter Mark Rothko, known for his large compositions.

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