Christopher Smith

Principal interests are figurative, portrait, interiors, landscape (mainly en plein air) and still life, working in all mediums with majority of work in oil or acrylic and more recently in printing (Collagraph, Etching, Engraving).
Now developing abstraction, under the influences of the St Ives Artists, in both figurative and landscape. Associate member & former Honorary Treasurer of the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall, former Trustee of Penwith Galleries. Member & Treasurer of the Porthmeor Print Workshop.

Student of the Late Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), renowned Plymouth figurative painter, from 1990 to 1997.

Take 5 Artists - Group show Crypt Gallery, St Ives June 2017
Press Gang - Group show of the some of the best Cornish Printers - Penwith Gallery October to November 2016
Take 5 Artists - Group show Crypt Gallery, St Ives April 2016
Associates Shows - The Penwith Gallery, St Ives August 2016 February to April 2016, August 2015, May to July 2015, February to April 2015, Dec2014 - Jan 2015.
The St Ives Society of Artists - Spring Open Exhibition 2014
St Ives School of Painting - Exhibition at The Sloop Inn, Wharf Road, St Ives Summer 2015, Summer 2014
The St Ives Society of Artists - Christmas Exhibition 2013
Various fund raising shows in Bucks 2010 to 2013
The Mall Gallery, London - Daily Mail "Not the Turner Prize" 2004