SHORT FILM: Artist destroys work in pursuit of perfection
A new 108 page book on the Artist Christopher P Wood, An Innocent Vision, was recently published by Goldmark . Dr Richard Davey, Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham School of Art and Design, contributes an essay to An Innocent Vision and comments…
“He shows us the reality of both pigment and poetry, wandering the space between wonder and knowledge, the unnamed and named where mystery exists… Wood’s paintings offer us both poetry and prose; a world where monsters prowl the bedroom and tree branches fall as patterned shadows on the wall”
Born in Leeds in 1961, Christopher P. Wood is a painter and printmaker of atmospheric and enigmatic imagery. He gained a master’s degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1986 and has consistently had successful exhibitions in the UK and abroad. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including Harrogate Art Gallery, Leeds City Council and the Unilever Collection. Wood’s work features symbolic figures and signs, what the artist calls an exploration of the interior world of the imagination. He spends a great deal of time priming his canvases, often four times over, and builds his pictures in such a way that once begun each must be finished in a single sitting, an emotionally draining task to say the least.
Check out my latest short film where Artist Christopher P Wood struggles for perfection with the art of printmaking using mono print and etching techniques at Goldmark Atelier. Available to watch on GOLDMARK TV