The Great Atlantic Galleries

chris rigby
old haunts

Asparagus Island at half tide, Kynance Cove
12.5 x 36” 31.5 x 91.5cm oil

“Over the past four or five years I’ve been painting mainly in the Lake District, getting high up on the fells and painting in gale force winds, rain, blizzards and sometimes sunshine.

“I always prefer the perspective you get from high up on the fells looking across the tops and down into the valleys. When walking the cliffs in Cornwall you get that perspective immediately. I like the way light and shade describe form and increasingly I am more interested in aerial perspective.

“As a motif, not much can surpass landscape. When you’re painting on the spot, every time you look up things have changed and your painting moves with the changes. You are painting the passage of time; you are expressing yourself. Everything you think about, take on board, discard, influences the work you produce”.

Chris Rigby, September 2006

Chris Rigby was born in Lancaster in 1967. He studied Art at Lancaster and Morecambe College and then moved to Cornwall to study illustration at Falmouth School of Art. After college he pursued an interest in the Old Masters with a period of tuition from ex-R.A. student and practicing painter Chris Robinson.

He returned to Cornwall in the late 1990’s living for a time in St. Ives and then St. Just, sharing a house with the artist Paul Lewin. In 1998, Chris returned to the northwest to paint in his near-native landscape of the Lakeland Fells. He has since mainly exhibited in the North, Cumbria in particular.

Since leaving Cornwall, Chris has maintained his connections with the landscape and friends with regular visits.

Chris’ most recent exhibition at Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry was the culmination of two residencies at the Cill Rialaig International Artists’ Retreat in the summers of 2005 and 2006. As a direct result of the resounding success of that show he will be having a solo exhibition in Dublin in the near future.

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