Cheltenham Art

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Chris Gregg

 

I seem to have been painting or drawing all my life!  One of my first memories is holding a pencil or paintbrush. I enthusiastically copied TV characters, or real artists’ work from comics and magazines, and that was my introduction to figure painting before I eventually learned how to do it properly at life drawing classes. My small boy’s interest in Westerns later turned into a lasting interest in military history which then found further expression in rendering the colourful uniforms and events of the past as paintings. 

Since those very early days I’ve also developed a real love for landscape, trees and water which I can exercise in great variety by painting scenes throughout Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds as well as farther afield.  I’ve been lucky enough to paint scenes in Australia, the USA, France and some Mediterranean locations. My work covers the spectrum of landscape and figures, especially those of a military or historical nature, and on occasion also includes birds and animals, since the natural world is another source of inspiration. 

The richness and permanence of oil colours gives great satisfaction but I occasionally turn my hand to using ink or water colour pencils for military figures. I find that similar effects to oil can be obtained in acrylics with only hours spent as drying time instead of the days or even weeks for a highly developed oil work. It’s a matter of personal taste for the buyer, of course, which looks best.

I have lived most of my life in Cheltenham and have been a successful exhibitor, with a few gap years, at the Open Air Art Exhibition, since 1976, when selling all the dozen pictures I had painted meant I never looked back. I was fortunate to be a committee member for 12 years. I have been a member of the Cotswold Art Club since the early 1990s. 

I shall be exhibiting as usual in the last week of the 2010 Open Air Art Exhibition, 11th – 18th July. This time I’ll be showing on Screen 7.  The long or tall paintings have been very popular and there will be more at the open air exhibition, as well as smaller sizes. You can see some of them below. 

My friends in the American Civil War re-enactment group have now got a commercial merchandising outlet to raise funds for living history activities. You can buy prints of my painting of the 1862 Battle of Fair Oaks along with other commemorative goods (including the battle scene on the back of a T-shirt!). See this link  http://www.zazzle.com/61stpvi

More information on the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment and the re-enactors can be found on their website, http://61stpvi.com/index.html ; the site has a lot of extremely good action photographs, and they have given me a separate page in which I explain more about my re-enactment experiences and how the painting came into being.  

There are two particularly exciting new developments for me this year.  My first attempts to sell a few paintings of the French Alps in 2009 proved successful and I’ve now painted a collection of 18 pictures in acrylics for 2010. My niece, Cathie, has some ideas for marketing them in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc this Summer.   If you'd like to know more about the pictures and where to see them, or you'd like a commission in that region, please get in touch with my representative in France, at cathegregg@gmail.com. Meanwhile you can see the images in this downloadable PDF file.

The second new venture is that I have recently been struck by the scenic possibilities provided by the Cotswold escarpment as a backdrop for Gloucestershire Airport. So I’ve painted a few oils, also including light aircraft. The airport management have kindly agreed to put them and several other local scenes on display in the airport terminal. It has been suggested this could be an ongoing venture, not just a short exhibition, so, in the future I might be including some views of Jersey, or maybe The Isle of Man, to catch the eye of travellers on these regular flights from Staverton.

 http://www.gloucestershireairport.co.uk/Directions.php

If you are interested in purchasing a print of some of my work I now have 14 images available from Giclee Gallery at Upton on Severn.  You can buy direct from Graham Morris at this website,  http://www.grahammorris.org.uk/gallery/075_chris_gregg/  or get in touch with me if you want one that is not there.

 


 

2010 Gallery

Prices, where stated, are for unframed paintings, unless otherwise specified

Please don’t forget to click on the link to Page 2 at the bottom of this page to look at images of paintings prior to 2008. Thank you

 

 

 

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Staverton Panorama

Oil on board

40 inches x 12 inches

 

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Detail from Staverton Panorama

 

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May Hill from Staverton

Oil on board

18 inches x 12 inches                                          

 

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Robinswood Hill from Staverton

Oil on board

9 inches x 9 inches                                          

 

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 Inglesham Mill, River Thames near Lechlade

Acrylic on board

28 inches x 20 inches                                          

£175

 

2009 Gallery

 

 

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"The Cider House, Chargrove"

Acrylic on canvas

40 inches x 30 inches

Commissioned for private collection

 

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High Summer, Little Barrington, Glos        

Oil on board

40 inches x 12 inches                                          

£200

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Cheeserollers to Churchdown: viewed from Grovefield Way, Up Hatherley, Cheltenham

Oil on board

40 inches x 12 inches                                          

£200

 

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Deep Shadows, Pittville Park, Cheltenham

Oil on board

40 inches x 12 inches                                          

£200

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Burning Mist, Autumn at Symonds Yat, Forest of Dean

Oil on framed board (deep black edges – does not need frame)

36 inches x 18 inches                                          

£250

 

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“Flash of Steel”           

Acrylic on board

7 inches x 5 inches                                               

£30

 

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On the Thames Path, near Cricklade, Wiltshire

Acrylic on board

16 inches x 20 inches                                          

£70

 

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A Shady Stream (Horsbere Brook, Badgeworth, Glos)

Acrylic on board

10 inches x 8 inches                                             

£30

 

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Sunset over Apperley, Glos

Acrylic on board

11 inches x 5 inches                                             

£30

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Morning Mist at Witcombe Reservoir, Glos

Acrylic on board

7 inches x 5 inches                                              

£30

 

 

   

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Blaitiere Dessus Refuge, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France

 Oil on board

16 inches x 12 inches 

 

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Climbing the Midi, Mont Blanc, France

Oil on board    

12 inches x 9 inches

 

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Sudeley Hill Farm, Winchcombe, Glos       

Oil on board

40 inches x 12 inches

 

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Sunset over Shurdington, Glos       

Acrylic on board

40 inches x 12 inches

 

 

 

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 Mid-Winter view from the Devil’s Chimney,  Cheltenham

Oil on board

16 inches x 14 inches

 

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“Cheltenham Sentinel”        

Oil on board

16 inches x 12 inches

 

 

 

2008 Gallery

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The Iron Brigade, 1863  “No Drill for Officers” “Column of Twos”

Indian Ink

Each 7 inches x 5 inches

(mounted separately) - £30 each

 

 

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“Willows and Shadows”,  Hethe, Oxfordshire

 Acrylic on board

10 inches x 8 inches

 

 

 

 

View over Gloucester from Barrow Wake - Twilight

Acrylic on canvas

16 inches x 14 inches

£30 each (canvas painted sides – does not need frame)

 

 

 

View over Gloucester from Barrow Wake - Sunset

Acrylic on canvas

16 inches x 14 inches 

£30 each (canvas painted sides – does not need frame)

 

 

 

“A Path to Badgeworth”

Oil on board

40 inches x 28 inches 

 

 

Detail from “A path to Badgeworth”

 

 

The Malvern Hills from Little Shurdington – New Year’s Day

Oil on board

40 inches x 12 inches

 

 

Detail from

"The Malvern Hills from Little Shurdington"

 

 

Flooded hay meadows at Deerhurst Walton, Glos

Acrylic on board

40 inches x 12 inches

 

Detail from

Flooded hay meadows at Deerhurst Walton 

 

 

Early morning -Millmouth Cove, North Devon

Acrylic on board

40 inches x 28 inches 

 

 

Private Ford rallies the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

at the Battle of Fair Oaks, 1862

Oil on board

16 inches x 12 inches

 

 

Detail from

The 61st PVI at Fair Oaks

 

 

 
 

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Contact Details

 

I hope you like what you see here. If I don’t have a painting you are interested in readily for sale I am keen to do commissions which start at about £50. Please get in touch with me if you wish to purchase any paintings shown here or to discuss the possibility of something special. I can now take payments via PayPal as well as cheque or cash. 

Email: chrisgregg@blueyonder.co.uk

 

Some recent customer comments:

 “....how wonderful the picture is and how thrilled I am with it. It is fantastic! I really can’t wait to get it on the wall. Every time I look at it there is something different to see.”

 “The best thing I've bought for a very long time”

 

And a thought from a famous artist: 

“What is quickly done is quickly seen, and would not bear the test of careful examination” 

Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825)

 

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