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Much of my inspiration stems from nature and local scenes.
Christopher Aggs
Born in 1951, Christopher began his formal art training at the age of 19 at The Ruskin School of Drawing. He then went on to study at The City and Guilds of London Art School, Kennington followed by The Royal Academy School, London.
His ability to seize reality through the familiar, with a focus on form, tone and colour, has gained him several awards, including the David Murray Award for Landscape Painting.
Chris currently lectures at The University College, Chichester and has exhibited his work successfully both in solo and group shows. He has produced public commissions such as 'Sunrise over Weald' for Worthing Hospital and his work is also among private collections.
Praise for Christopher's work has come from well known painter and author, Julian Bell, "Chris Aggs paints well. His work holds up a standard of achievement... it returns to the viewer the pleasure of looking at the world, yet brings them together in a fresh, more coherent structure... his methods endorse Sickert's 1980 prescription for 'bonne peinture' - the clean and frank juxtaposition of impastos, considered as opaque, rather than as transparent, and related to each other in colour and values by the deliberate and conscious act of the painter. Even if Cezanne and Morandi are Agg's more immediate touchstones, he also holds to this distinctly English ethos by eschewing flash brushwork and the Léger main of glazes."