Cheltenham Art
Artists
Chris Gregg
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One of my first memories is holding a pencil or paintbrush. Enthusiastically copying TV characters, or real artists’ work from comics and magazines, 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 deep 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 in The Cotswolds, Forest of Dean and the Severn and Wye Valleys. 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. |
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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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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 |
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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Oil on board 16 inches x 14 inches
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“Cheltenham Sentinel” Oil on board 16 inches x 12 inches
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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
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View over Gloucester from Barrow Wake - Twilight Acrylic on canvas 16 inches x 14 inches £30 each (canvas painted sides – does not need frame)
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| View over Gloucester from Barrow Wake - Sunset Acrylic on canvas 16 inches x 14 inches £30 each (canvas painted sides – does not need frame)
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The Malvern Hills from Little Shurdington – New Year’s Day Oil on board 40 inches x 12 inches
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Detail from "The Malvern Hills from Little Shurdington"
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| Flooded hay meadows at Deerhurst Walton, Glos Acrylic on board 40 inches x 12 inches |
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Detail from Flooded hay meadows at Deerhurst Walton
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| Early morning -Millmouth Cove, North Devon Acrylic on board 40 inches x 28 inches
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| Private Ford rallies the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Fair Oaks, 1862 Oil on board 16 inches x 12 inches
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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
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Cheltenham Art