Christos Tsimaris

While Christos Tsimaris‘ paintings are primarily portraits and figurative pictures. However, his aim is not to represent a beautiful image of a person, an individual, rather it’s an ongoing exploration of the process itself; how the painting is created in relation to its structure, composition, colour and mark making.
Like many figurative painters of his generation it’s impossible for Tsimaris to avoid the looming shadows of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, both of which have dominated the figurative world, their paintings both evocative, emotional and full of existential angst. However Tsimaris is finding his own path into the light, away from these titans of 20th Century art, his work constantly seeking to go beyond the Freudian discipline of representational art and the more gestural expressionism that we are familiar with in the figurative paintings of Bacon.
Often returning to himself Tsimaris spends endless hours honing his craft infront of a mirror in the studio, drawing, painting, adding layers of colour only to pare them back, the search for a new form of expression willing him forward, to create a new mode of expressing the humanity within people.
Accidents and mishaps play a large part in his process, often layering and s...

1996 - 1997 - Masters Degree, European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, Winchester
1995 - 1996 - Post Graduate Studies, Byam Shaw School of Art, London
1988 - 1993 - B.A. Hons Degree, School of Art of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
1987 - 1988 - Private tuition, Atelier School of Drawing, Thessaloniki, Greece

2023 Art west weekend , open studios
2023 Vellutini gallery Paris ,solo show
2023 muse gallery, London solo show
2023 99 projects ,group show ,London
2022 Art west weekend ,open studios London
2022 portrait artist of the year, Compton Verney Gallery
2019 icone MONREALE/ MUSEO DIOCESANO,PALERMO,ITALY
2018 ARTWEST,LONDON
2017 The need to doodle Base gallery London
2016 SCRATCHING the SURFACE LACEY CONTEMPORARY
2015 ANTHOLOGY 2015 CHARLIE SMITH LONDON
2014 - Hamburg Art Fair, 13th - 16th November 2014
2014 - Thomas & Paul, London
2014 - 'Gaze', Espacio Gallery, London
2014 - 'Spring Fever: Emerging Artists from Saatchi Art', Hyatt Regency, London
2014 - Open Studios, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Street
2013 - Espacio Gallery, London
2013 - Open Studios, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Street
2012 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, London
2012 - Open Studios,Acava, 54 Blechynden street
2012 - '100 Curators, 100 Days' collection, Saatchi Online
2011 - Sprout's "Crumbs" Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory
2011 - ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2011 - Open Studios, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Street
2011 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2010 - Open Studios, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Str...