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Chris Myers RI RBA
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Since then he has followed a successful career as a painter and illustrator using watercolour as his primary medium.
His first one-man show of watercolours was held in Falaise in Northern France in June 1994.
He has a particular affinity with this country, especially the Normandy region, where he and his wife have an old stone house bought back in 1988. The region has subsequently been the subject of paintings over the years.
Chris has traveled widely in Europe and the United States as well as visiting Cuba, Australia, Russia, Africa and most recently Morocco and Egypt. His journeys provide inspiration and a good deal of subject matter for his work. He is currently planning a trip to Ireland later on this year.
Chris has exhibited in many London shows over the years, with the RI and the RBA, and in the annual Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, as well as in the RWS Open Exhibition where he has won several prizes, (the ‘Curwen / New Academy ‘, the ‘Daler-Rowney’ and ‘The Artist’ Prize on two occasions).
Chris won the Matt Bruce RI Memorial Award at the 2009 RI Exhibition. He has held several one-man shows as well as exhibiting for the last five years with The Kent Painters Group. Other Shows include successful exhibitions at the Greenstede Gallery at East Grinstead and at the Gascoigne Gallery in Harrogate as well as exhibiting for two consecutive years at the Goodwood Revival and the Festival of Speed.
His work has been featured in several magazines including ‘Octane and ‘The Artist’. His paintings of his trip to Russia were featured in the July 2008 edition of ‘The Artist’.
Chris joined the Royal Society of British Artists in 2006, and was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 2009.