"'Emerging Structures'" Painting

Chris McLinden originally trained as an artist, completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art before beginning his career in hospital and community - based art therapy, supporting adults with mental health and developmental needs. This work deepened his understanding of human behaviour, creativity, and emotional expression - themes that continue to inform his practice today.

He later spent several years teaching across a broad spectrum of creative disciplines, including Fine Art, Graphic Design, Photography and Sign Making, before progressing into University senior leadership. There Chris specialised in creativity and innovation strategy, working with senior academics and leaders to identify, develop and commercialise knowledge - based products and services.


Chris has now returned full - time to his career as a professional contemporary artist and designer, working across sculpture, painting, drawing and photography. His practice investigates the evolving relationship between humans, creativity and innovation - exploring how people respond to new ideas, technologies and cultural shifts.
Chris is a professional artist based in the UK, producing artwork including Drawing, Sculpture and Photography.

A central strand of his work involves the deconstruction and re - purposing of found objects, challenging the assumptions, functions, and conventional representations of materials and concepts. By dismantling and reconfiguring them, Chris creates new visual narratives that reveal alternative meanings and possibilities.


Chris is also the creator of the trademarked innovation 'Portraits of Concepts', an ongoing body of work that examines how creativity is formed, captured and applied within ever-evolving conceptual fields. This includes Environmental, Social, Cultural, Political and Technological domains, where he transforms complex knowledge-based ideas into visual interpretations that reflect their real-world impacts, issues and opportunities.

Chris is open to collaborations on 'Portraits of Concepts' with individual artists, entrepreneurs, academics and business practitioners.

He is also keen to collaborate with commercial organisations from all industry sectors, Universities and Third Sector Organisations.