Chris Hensher


Website: www.christopherhensher.com

Instagram: chrishensher


Statement


I am a painter and printmaker working in oils and watercolour from a studio at my home on the North Downs on the southern outskirts of London.

I make my etchings and drypoints in the workshops at Bainbridge Print Studios and at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea. It is here that I have also studied drawing and portrait painting.

In my studio, I make lithographs on a Globe offset lithographic press purchased from the London College of Printing.

My preferred subject matter involves people, both in situations and as portraits, but I engage with most types of work and particularly enjoy plein-air painting and sketching.

I am a member of The Artists' Pool, The Society of Painters in Water-Mixable Oils, Bore Place Painters and the Selsdon Art Group.


Biography


Art education

The Heatherley School of Fine Art

City Literary Institute

 

Exhibitions

2023

Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, Open 2023

Heatherley's Print Exhibition 2023

D31 Art Prize short-list

D31, Doncaster, Summer Exhibition

Gallery@42, Eastbourne, Being Human

2022

54 The Gallery, Mayfair, Threads

Heatherley's Portrait, Life and Print Open Access Studios show

2021

Heatherley's Summer Print Show

54 The Gallery, Mayfair, Human Condition

Heatherley's Portrait, Life and Print Open Access Studios show

2020

Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, The Resilient Self

Contemporary Art Fair, Surrey

2019

Cambridge University, Summer Open

2017

Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, Contemporary Watercolour 2017 

Heatherley's Printmaking Exhibition

Cheyne Walk Trust, Chelsea Life Exhibition 

2016

St Julian's Gallery, Sevenoaks, BPP Summer Exhibition