Christopher Godber

Chris Paul Godber Born 9th March 1986 I am a 28 year old painter from the North West of England now based in London.

I am inspired by a variety of different styles and movements in my work and also explore a variety of different ideas.

I am inspired by a lot of modernist painting and often work with a modernist aesthetic, utilising abstraction and distortion in an attempt to heighten the impact of an image. Some particular painters who have inspired me include Picasso for his cubist work, Van Gogh for his confident handling of paint and intense portrayal of nature, Joan Miro for his biomorphic abstractions and a whole host of expressionists, surrealists and abstract painters.

My work often explores an inner world of abstracted shapes and what I call an interior landscape which I think of as the landscape of the mind. I do not often work from subject matter and will most often start with an initial visualisation or idea in my mind which I will then expand on as I work. While some of my work is purely abstract and non-objective there are often subtle hints at representational imagery, like images glimpsed then forgotten as in a dream.

Some reoccurring themes I have explored in my work include portraying nature, distorting...

No Formal Educational background in Art

Solo
2014 : Drown in It : Paintings 2012 to 2014
April 25th April to 4th May at the No Format Gallery, Woolwich London
2012 : Manic Miner Solo Exhibition
Saturday May 21st to May 29th at Electric Picture House, Congleton, Cheshire
2011 : Maelstrom Work 2009/2010 Solo Exhibition
Saturday Feb 26th to March 4th at Victoria Mill Art Centre, Congleton, Cheshire

Selected Group:
December 2014
Rosetta at Project Space Gallery, Vyner Street, London

November 2014
Project Space Launch at Project Space Gallery, Vyner Street, London

May 2014
Anonymous - Postcard Art Show, No Format Gallery London

Various Group
Jan 2014 to Feb 2014 Cultivate, Vyner Street London
Art is for Life not just for Christmas

21st November to December 8th 2013 Cultivate, Vyner Street London

Gallimaufry Electric Picture House Group Exhibition
2nd May 2013 at Crewe Hall Crewe
Love Exhibition Electric Picture House, Congleton
1st Feb to the 23rd Feb 2013 Electric Picture House, Congleton
Picture Postcard exhibition Electric Picture House, Congleton
9th June to 23rd June
Premiere Exhibition
Saturday 21st April to Saturday 5th May 2012 at The Electric Picture House, Congleton
Streets of Pattern
15th March 2012 Lawton Street Congleton ...