Christopher read English at Birmingham University He then studied for four years at the Slade School of Fine Art. Living and working in Exeter for the past 40 odd years he has variously been Film  & Television Officer for South West Arts, independent film producer, and lecturer in Media Arts at Plymouth University. Since 2010 he has re-discovered and explored his first passion, painting.

“I like to think of  the surfaces of my paintings (both long and square) as terrains or landscapes made up of marks, colours and shapes. Processes of work on these material components are indicated, playfully and pleasurably, through taking lines for short strolls (as opposed for a walk as in Paul Klee’s famous dictum), little truant lines along the contours and byeways of patches of evocative colours, lyrical shapes and pictorial anecdotes. My paintings and drawings are not primarily meant to be seen as landscapes but rather as  imaginary travelogues. If they have any point of origin it is in the long nostalgic poetic tract called Amours de Voyage written by  Arthur Hugh Clough, and almost forgotten poet and critic Matthew Arnold. They comprise, if I remember correctly, little vignettes of loves and reflections as he travels in the classical landscapes of the Grand Tour tradition. Of course, these works are not meant as adaptations of literary sensibilities.  I do primarily find inspiration from visual sources. Among many others I love the photographs of Cy Twombly and the ‘portraits’ of Howard Hodgkin!” 

Christopher has exhibited his paintings in the West Country over the past ten year.

All the works are for sale starting at £300. 
For prices and further information please contact Christopher Rodrigues by email.