Chris Partington Artist

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I paint landscapes that have meaning within and beyond the landscape.
I look back before I was created and forward ahead of the subject I stand before.
I paint rocks with modern tough acrylics and carve hard ancient rocks into delicate new shapes.

Chris Partington

Chris Partington painted English landscape in oils, watercolours and acrylics in the 1970s and now works in watercolours, acrylics and stone often using the New Zealand landscape as a backdrop in his paintings.

The main theme of Chris's work for the past forty years has been "Time" in various forms, sometimes represented by a Celtic female figure within the landscape. His style has moved closer and closer to the edge of realism, using actual places and objects painted from life but containing a great deal of symbolism to give the painting a meaning beyond the landscape.

Chris has been exhibiting with The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts since 1999, in 2001 he held a Solo at the Michael Fowler Centre and has had two Solo exhibitions at the Academy galleries in following years. Although an independent artist his paintings can sometimes be found in dealer galleries and are included in private collections in New Zealand and overseas.

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