Cheltenham Art
Artists
Chris Gregg
Landscape and
historical specialist in oils and acrylics
|
I seem to have been painting or drawing all my life! One of my first
memories is holding a pencil or paintbrush. I enthusiastically copied TV
characters, or people from comics and magazines, and that was my
introduction to figure painting before I eventually learned how to do it
properly at life drawing classes. My small boy’s interest in Westerns later
turned into a lasting interest in military history which then found further
expression in rendering the colourful uniforms and events of the past as
paintings.
Since those very early days I’ve also developed a real love for landscape,
trees and water which I can exercise in great variety by painting scenes
throughout Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds as well as farther afield.
I’ve been lucky enough to paint scenes in Australia, the USA, France and
some Mediterranean locations. My work covers the spectrum of landscape and
figures, especially those of a military or historical nature, and on
occasion also includes birds and animals.
The richness and permanence of oil colours
gives great satisfaction and in recent years I've used the more
environmentally friendly Artisan range of water mixable oil colours to good
effect. I find that similar effects to oil can be obtained in acrylics
with only hours spent as drying time instead of the days or even weeks for a
highly developed oil work. It’s a matter of personal taste for the buyer, of
course, which looks best. I also occasionally turn my hand to using fine
liner pens, ink or water colour pencils for military figures. |
 |
I have
lived most of my life in Cheltenham and have been a successful exhibitor, with a
few gap years, at the Open Air Art Exhibition, since 1976, when selling all the
dozen pictures I had painted meant I never looked back. I was fortunate to be a
committee member for 12 years.
This year I have concentrated mainly on paintings with a Gloucester or Cotswold
theme. These were primarily intended for my first solo exhibition which was in
May 2011 at the Gloucestershire Arts and Crafts centre at Gloucester docks.
Thanks to everyone who visited and to the volunteer artists who "man" the shop.
It looked very nice and I got some lovely comments. You can see some photos and
some of the comments here in this downloadable
PDF file.
The military history side of my work continues, and the illustrations for the new magazine, the "Classic
Wargamer's Journal" , have been very well received.
You can find out more about Classic Wargaming at this
blog and the links from it.
http://www.classicwargaming.blogspot.com/
I've put together a
PDF file
showing the published illustrations. Some of the originals are still for sale.
Most of the French Alpine scenes in acrylics painted in 2010 are
still available. My niece, Cathie, exhibited them in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc last
Summer and is interested in finding new venues to display them in that area.
If you'd like to know more about the pictures and where to see them, or you'd
like a commission in that region, please get in touch with my representative in
France, at
cathegregg@gmail.com.
Meanwhile you can see the images in this downloadable
PDF file.
I still have paintings in a permanent display in
the airport terminal at Gloucestershire Airport. They are mostly local scenes
including a couple of the airport itself (shown below) but there are also two of
Jersey, which is a major destination from the airport. Here is a link to the
Airport website
http://www.gloucestershireairport.co.uk/Directions.php
2011-12 Gallery
Prices, where stated, are for
unframed paintings, unless otherwise specified
For those particularly interested in military pictures there are examples of my
work on Chris Gregg
2.
|
 |
"Une
Belle Derriere, n'est-ce pas?"
Commissioned for private collection as companion to "Constance,
what are you doing?"
|
|
 |
Commissioned for private collection
|
|
 |
"I
gave him the brush off"
(copy
of an original by well-known pin-up artist, Gil Elvgren)
Acrylic on deep edge box canvas
|
|
 |
"Bristol
Channel Cutter off Lydney"
Acrylic on
board
20
inches x 8 inches
£45
|
|
 |
"Constance
- What are you doing?"
(from
"Tales of the Golden Head" by Ian Allen)
Commissioned for private collection
|
|
 |
"Evening
over the Severn Valley, from Coaley Peak, Glos"
Oil on
board
38
inches x 28 inches £300
|
|
 |
"Cotswold
Drover"
Oil on
Board
26 inches
x 18 inches
|
|
 |
"Reflections
and Clover"
Oil on
Board
34 inches
x 12 inches
|
|
 |
"Gloucester:
Across the fields to Kingsholm"
Oil on
board
40 inches
x 12 inches
|
|
 |
"Historic
Ships at Gloucester Docks in 2009"
Main
vessels left to right - The Matthew, Kaskelot and the Earl of
Pembroke
Oil on
Board
28 inches
x 18 inches
Details
from the painting can be viewed via this link:
http://cheltenham-art.com/images/2011/cg72.jpg
|
|
 |
"Gloucester: A Long Haul Home"
Oil on
Board
40 inches
x 12 inches
£150
A details
from the painting can be viewed via this link:
http://cheltenham-art.com/images/2011/cg67a.jpg
|
|
 |
"Taking
the Strain"
Oil
on canvas board
20
inches x 16 inches £100
|
2010 Gallery
|
 |
"Snow
on Chosen Hill, Glos"
Acrylic on
canvas
12 inches
x 12 inches
|
|
|
|
|
 |
"Alpine
Marsh Marigolds"
Oil on
Board
40 inches
x 12 inches
|
|
 |
"Painswick
Stream in Spring"
Oil on
Board
40 inches
x 12 inches
|
|
 |
"Willows on the Wye"
Oil on Board
19 inches x 15 inches
£70
|
|
 |
"Eckington Bridge
and Bredon Hill, Worcestershire"
Oil on Board
16 inches x 10 inches
£60
|
|
 |
"After the
Milking, near Shurdington, Glos"
Acrylic on
Board
15 inches
x 10 inches
£60
|
|
 |
"Chosen Hill, from Badgeworth, Glos"
Acrylic on Board
12 inches x 5.5 inches
£40
|
|
 |
"Long
Shadows at Badgeworth Church, Glos"
Acrylic on
Board
8 inches x
10 inches
£40
|
|
 |
"Badgeworth Village Hall,
Glos"
Acrylic on Board
9 inches x 6 inches
£30
|
|
 |
"Leckhampton Hill,
from Shurdington, Glos"
Acrylic on Board
8 inches x 10 inches
£40
|
|
 |
Staverton Panorama
Oil on board
40 inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Detail
from Staverton Panorama
|
|
 |
May Hill
from Staverton
Oil
on board
18
inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Robinswood
Hill from Staverton
Oil
on board
9
inches x 9 inches
|
|
 |
Inglesham
Mill, River Thames near Lechlade
Acrylic
on board
28
inches x 20 inches
£175 |
2009 Gallery
|
|
|
|
 |
"The Cider House,
Chargrove"
Acrylic on canvas
40 inches x 30 inches
Commissioned for
private collection
|
|
 |
High Summer, Little Barrington, Glos
Oil
on board
40
inches x 12 inches
£200 |
|
 |
Cheeserollers to Churchdown: viewed from Grovefield Way, Up
Hatherley, Cheltenham
Oil
on board
40
inches x 12 inches
£200
|
|
 |
Deep Shadows, Pittville Park, Cheltenham
Oil
on board
40
inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Burning Mist, Autumn at Symonds Yat, Forest of Dean
Oil
on framed board (deep black edges – does not need frame)
36
inches x 18 inches
£250
|
|
 |
On
the Thames Path, near Cricklade, Wiltshire
Acrylic on board
16
inches x 20 inches
|
|
 |
Sunset over Apperley, Glos
Acrylic on board
11
inches x 5 inches
£30 |
|
 |
Morning Mist at Witcombe Reservoir, Glos
Acrylic on board
7
inches x 5 inches
£30
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Blaitiere Dessus Refuge, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France
Oil
on board
16
inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Climbing the Midi, Mont Blanc, France
Oil
on board
12
inches x 9 inches
|
|
 |
Sudeley Hill Farm, Winchcombe, Glos
Oil
on board
40
inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Sunset over Shurdington, Glos
Acrylic on board
40
inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Mid-Winter view from the Devil’s Chimney, Cheltenham
Oil
on board
16
inches x 14 inches
|
|
 |
“Cheltenham Sentinel”
Oil
on board
16
inches x 12 inches
|
2008 Gallery
(Click on thumbnail images)
|
 |
“A
Path to Badgeworth”
Oil on board
40
inches x 28 inches
|
|
 |
Detail from “A path to Badgeworth”
|
|
 |
The
Malvern Hills from Little Shurdington – New Year’s Day
Oil
on board
40
inches x 12 inches
|
|
 |
Detail from
"The
Malvern Hills from Little Shurdington"
|
|
 |
Flooded hay meadows at Deerhurst Walton, Glos
Acrylic on board
40
inches x 12 inches |
|
 |
Detail from
Flooded hay meadows at Deerhurst Walton
|
|
 |
Early
morning -Millmouth Cove, North Devon
Acrylic on board
40
inches x 28 inches
|
|
|
"River Wye at Nannerth,
midWales"
2007
Oil
on board
32
inches x 24 inches
|
1985-2007
|
|
“The
Deserted Pool”
2007
Oil on
board
40
inches x 12 inches
|
|
|
“Witcombe
Reflections”
2007
Oil
on canvas
30
inches x 24 inches
|
|
|
Detail
from "Witcombe Reflections"
2007
Oil
on canvas
10
inches x 8 inches
|
|
|
"Cotswold
Tops from Barrow Wake"
2007
Oil
on canvas
24
inches x 20 inches
£90
|
|
|
“Cotswold
Morning”
2007
Oil
on canvas
30
inches x 20 inches
£100 |
|
|
“View over Cheltenham from The
Crippetts”
1993
Oil on board
24 inches x 16 inches
|
|
|
“The
Severed Claw”
1995
Oil
on board
14 inches x 10
inches
£70
|
|
|
|
Chris Gregg -
Military Paintings
Contact Details
I hope you like what you see here. If I don’t
have a painting you are interested in readily for sale I am keen to do
commissions which start at about £50. Please get in touch with me if you wish to
purchase any paintings shown here or to discuss the possibility of something
special. I can now take payments via PayPal as well as cheque or cash.
Email:
chrisgregg@blueyonder.co.uk
Some recent customer comments:
“....how wonderful the picture is and how
thrilled I am with it. It is fantastic! I really can’t wait to get it on the
wall. Every time I look at it there is something different to see.”
“The best thing I've bought for a very long time”
"Wow! I'm so
pleased with it... beautiful. Thanks so much. .......it really looks fantastic
framed- and all I have to do is decide on prime position on the walls of
the room."
"Absolutely
fantastic Chris. You really have captured the scene perfectly. So
excited...........Love the buildings too. Spot on"
"The
drawings are excellent – even better 'in the flesh'."
And a thought from a famous artist:
“What is quickly done is quickly seen, and would
not bear the test of careful examination”
Jacques-Louis David
(1748 – 1825)
Powered by
counter.bloke.com
Since 2nd June 2008
Cheltenham Art
