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Chris Forsey RI


 Bringing in the Pots Port Isaac 
 
 Early Morning Anthony in Meneage 
 
 Caffa Mill Craft & Cottages 
 
 Up the Causeway Port Isaac 
 
 Along the Cliff Boscastle 
 
 Trebarwith fron the Top 
 
 Summer Walk Prussia Cove 
 
 April Colour Zennor 
 
 Cloud Break Tregardock Beach 
 
 Late Sun Port Quin 
 
 Up the Slipway Portloe 
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 Bright Morning Helford 
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 Morning Shadows Poperro 
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 Early Morning Calm Gweek 
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 Autumn Afternoon Cadgwith 
 
     
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.

He endeavours to re-appraise his style and technique on a regular basis and this has led him towards a mixed-media approach to his work, combining watercolour, acrylic, pastel and gouache. 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, thus creating an exciting surface of scattered, broken colour.

He 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 downland, coastal scenes of the Uk and the Mediternean, cafe life and townscapes. He tries to capture the sense of a place at a specific moment, season or time of day, always endeavouring to bring passion and immediacy to my work.

Chris was awarded the prestigious F DONALD BLAKE AWARD for a contemporary watercolour by the LINCOLN JOYCE gallery in 2006at the RI spring exhibition and also THE MATT BRUCE MEMORIAL AWARD for light and colour at the 2007 RI exhibition. He has just been elected a Memnber of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.