As a Norfolk artist, Chris is drawn to Norfolk’s fishing and seafaring history. Old wooden working boats, such as the Norfolk Crab boat, the fishermen who sailed them and the boat building communities who crafted them, are subjects that evoke in him a sense of attachment and nostalgia to Norfolk’s coastal life and traditions built over generations. This is the inspiration for his work.

Chris attended the Kingston School of Art & Design in the 60’s, and paints with a modernist and minimalist sensibility. As a still-life artist, Chris is interested in the placement and juxtaposition of varied shapes and forms.

Appreciating the craftsmanship of the old Norfolk family boat builders, with skills passed down by generations, he paints working boats (nearly always) as if “beached at low tide,” fully showing their curves and lines – and thereby presenting these old wooden working boats as sculptural art-forms in their own right. Which Chris believes they are!

He is a Friend and volunteer at Rescue Wooden Boats, at Stiffkey, along the North Norfolk coast, close to where he lives. This wonderful charity aims to preserve these old "crabbers" and "whelkers" - in working order if possible. It's a great resource and inspiration for Chris to see these boats at close hand - and to make sketches and take photos during their maintenance or restoration process.

His paintings are exhibited mostly in East Anglia - and permanently at his Gallery in Hindringham in Norfolk (NR21 0PT), which is open by appointment.