Chris Kendrick

After completing a Foundation Diploma at Stourbridge College of Art in his native Midlands in the UK, in 1990 Chris moved to Norwich to undertake a BA Honours degree course in fine art at the Norfolk Institute of Art & Design. This included a period of study at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Since completing his degree he has continued to live and work in Norwich.

In 2003 he turned to painting full-time. He shows regularly in galleries in London and throughout England and has shown in continental Europe.

In October 2012 he was winner of the Visual Arts category of the EDP/Hostry Norfolk Arts Awards.

Chris works almost exclusively in oils on canvas panel - grounds made by stretching and fixing canvas over a wooden or composite panel before being primed. This provides a firm and stable support for the transparent glazing and stippling methods he uses to create his vivid colours and the sense of depth, light and shade seen in his paintings.

Recently he has been concentrating on the genre of still life.

While inspired by the work of Dutch and Spanish still life artists of the 17th century and employing some of their traditional techniques, this is combined with the artist's sig...