Chris Small
- Fine Artist
Chris Small works predominantly in oils and sometimes in pencil, oil sticks and ink. She loves to explore the way colours bounce off each other creating striking images, visually interesting both from a distance as well as close up.
Chris is fascinated by the way we can see history in the marks and colours left on the Earth's surfaces. She finds inspiration in the patterns, light and colours in nature- aiming to re-create the warm feeling of being ‘in’ nature.
Her work signifies the fierceness and fragility of nature, each artwork acting as its own palimpsest, revealing layers that change over the time of producing the work.
Humanity is fragile. It is the planet we inhabit that sustains our existence. Sooner than we think, humans could become traces in Earth's palimpsest, our footprint eventually grown over, reclaimed by nature , the echoes of our time here remaining only as part of the Earth’s surfaces.