Chris Humphreys: Artist review - Woodland Chicken World
November 30th 2006 21:41
Chris Humphreys’ strangely beautiful paintings depict a border world in which nature gets caught up and mixes with fantasy and reality.
His first solo show Woodland Chicken World at Transition Gallery in London England enhances this sense of mystery with a touch of exotic orientalism to give his new paintings of common or garden birds an aristocratic grace.Influenced by Chinoiserie, a centuries-old decorative style based on highly embellished and exaggerated Chinese design, Humphreys’ sets his birds (most particularly chickens) in an intricate, ornamental world of paint.
His first solo show Woodland Chicken World at Transition Gallery in London England enhances this sense of mystery with a touch of exotic orientalism to give his new paintings of common or garden birds an aristocratic grace.Influenced by Chinoiserie, a centuries-old decorative style based on highly embellished and exaggerated Chinese design, Humphreys’ sets his birds (most particularly chickens) in an intricate, ornamental world of paint.
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