Chris In His Own Words
'I was born in 1974, with a pencil in my hand much to the discomfort of my mom! I spent my childhood in the Black Country and after training in graphic design I moved into the computer gaming (development) world. It was fun and an ideal job, with my days devoted to the creation of characters and new worlds, until one day the fun stopped!
I decided to branch out an
Chris In His Own Words
'I was born in 1974, with a pencil in my hand much to the discomfort of my mom! I spent my childhood in the Black Country and after training in graphic design I moved into the computer gaming (development) world. It was fun and an ideal job, with my days devoted to the creation of characters and new worlds, until one day the fun stopped!
I decided to branch out and looked at other things, new challenges & new beginnings, combining my two loves: comedy & painting!
Fascination With Stand-Up
I'd always been fascinated by Stand-Up comedy, seeing it as an ‘artform’ on stage and making people laugh the ultimate in performance art for me: a person standing alone shares their ideas with the public who may or may not ‘go with’ them. I thought I'd give it a try and soon realised that this was for me but also that comedy is not all about the jokes – there is so much more to it!
There is no formula, there is timing, expressions, the routines and a comedy icon is a person who can understand all these things and still make it look effortless, and that's why I pay my tribute to the comedy heroes of the past and present in both my artworks.’
The artist can be found on Instagram
