Cheltenham Art
Artists
Chris Gregg -Military Paintings
Landscape and historical
specialist in oils and acrylics
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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 people 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.
The richness and permanence of oil colours gives great satisfaction and in
recent years I've used the more environmentally friendly Artisan range of
water mixable oil colours to good effect. 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 also
occasionally turn my hand to using fine liner pens, ink or water colour
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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.
Military 2010-12
Prices, where stated, are for
unframed paintings, unless otherwise specified
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"Afghanistan
- Heads Down"
Acrylic on
deep edge
box canvas
8
inches x 8 inches £45
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"Afghanistan
- Calling for Support"
Acrylic on
deep edge
box canvas
8
inches x 8 inches £45
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"Afghanistan - Taking Cover"
Acrylic
on deep edge
box canvas
8
inches x 8 inches £45
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"Afghanistan - Evacuation under Fire"
Acrylic
on deep edge
box canvas
8
inches x 8 inches
£45
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"Colonel
Massie at the Siege of Gloucester, 1643"
This is an
imaginative rendition showing St Mary’s Square under fire from
Royalist artillery,
while
Parliamentarian musketeers form up ready for a sortie outside the
city.
Oil on
Board
22 inches
x 16 inches
Details
from the painting can be viewed via this link:
http://cheltenham-art.com/images/2011/cg74.jpg
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"A Vedette
of the Bercheny Hussars, c 1747"
Acrylic on
board
11.5
inches x 8 inches Commissioned for Private Collection
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Military 1985-2009
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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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“Flash of Steel”
Acrylic on board
7
inches x 5 inches
£30
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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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Detail from
The
61st PVI at Fair Oaks
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“Bringing up the Guns”, French Horse artillery c.1809
1985
Oil on board
20 inches x 16 inches
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“About
to Charge”, French Lancers, 1813-
1991
Oil on board
8 inches x 6 inches
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"British
Hussars in Spain
c.1810"
1996
Oil
on board
30
inches x 24 inches
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“July
1st 1863”
2005
Oil
on canvas
10
inches x 8 inches
£35
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“Chasseurs at Benevente
1808”
1988
Oil on board
20 inches x 16
inches
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'French 7th Hussar Regiment
c.1805'
1993
Oil on board
8 inches x 6 inches
£30
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Please click here
to see my main page with other subjects and links to files with more images.
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”
"Wow! I'm so pleased with it... beautiful.
Thanks so much. .......it really looks fantastic framed- and all I have to
do is decide on prime position on the walls of the room."
"Absolutely
fantastic Chris. You really have captured the scene perfectly. So
excited...........Love the buildings too. Spot on"
"The
drawings are excellent – even better 'in the flesh'."
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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