Chris’s art studio and home is a small wooden chalet looking out to Godrevy Lighthouse on the North Coast of Cornwall.

Artist and Cornish hedger means he’s never too far away from this dramatic coastline which inspires the art he creates.

But it hasn’t always been this way……..

Born in 1969 he cannot remember a time he didn’t draw. Pencil nub in hand he drew his matchbox cars rather than play with them and then later as a teen it was cross sections of aircraft . He grew up in Cornwall, playing on the rocks at Gwithian and Godrevy, even back then realising it was special.

With A’s in Art and Technical Drawing at Camborne sixth form, art college loomed, but so did an essay on why he should be selected in place of a failed English paper.

The essay wasn’t written.

A career in the RAF as an aircraft engineer followed but Chris never stopped drawing. Constantly sketching whatever he saw, the planes he worked on, the locations he was posted to and always Cornwall, where he would return at every opportunity.

In 2001 he eventually returned home with a wife and two boys in tow.

With the support of Acme, a charity supporting the development and production of art by reducing the practical challenges that artists face, Chris got a studio in the Old Net Loft at Porthleven. This space allowed him to experiment.

After finding his style he then found his home and studio on Gwithian Towans. Art was sold quite literally off the chalet walls by word of mouth and still does today. A sell out one man exhibition titled ‘A Chalet Life’ gave him the nod to change career and he’s on his way to swapping spanners for paintbrushes and pursuing his dream held since the 80’s.