ARTIST PROFILE

 

Chris Thomas

 

Address:   Rose Cottage ,Trevalga ,Boscastle

 

                          Cornwall PL350DZ

 

Tel                        01840 250670

 

B.                 1947

 

1965-69       Studied Fine art at Reading university.

 

1969-70       First stay in Cornwall on a David Murray landscape Award.

 

1972-3          Postgraduate degree in art psychotherapy at Hertfordshire school of art .

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

1970            Reading university library/with Rosalind Eastman

 

1979           WestwardTV open art

 

1979           North Cornwall Museum Camelford/with Rosalind Eastman

 

1979          Tintagel Arts festival

 

1980           North Cornwall Museum Camelford

 

1984          Dunheved gallery Launceston/with Kurt Jackson

 

1986          Brewhouse theatre Taunton Somerset

 

1988         Invited artist at the London group, Royal college of art Kensington

 

1989         Plymouth society of artists

 

1989         Invited artist Skulpturenpark Willabadessen Germany

 

1990         London group

 

1991         White lane gallery ,Plymouth

 

1991         South West Open

 

1992         Cheltenham School of art/with Ray Atkins

 

1993-5      North Cornwall Museum Camelford/with Ros Eastman 

 

1993-5      Chapel gallery Saltram house Plymouth

 

1993         Bridgewater Art Centre/ with Henry Israel ,Caeria Strong ,Rosalind Eastman

 

1994          Fisher gallery Wadebridge /with the North Cornwall Seven

 

1995         Sterts open

 

1995          Falmouth Art gallery /with the North Cornwall Seven

 

1996        Truro City art gallery/with the North Cornwall Seven

 

1995-8    Glastonbury festival, the Green field

 

1996       Chapel gallery Saltram house /with Ros Eastman and Ray Atkins

 

1996       Atrium gallery Kensington London

 

1996       Gallery in der Gartenhouse, Rheda –wiedenbruck

 

1997        Fisher gallery Wadebridge /with the North Cornwall Seven

 

1997        Bideford art centre /with the North Cornwall Seven

 

1998-01    Plain Street gallery North Cornwall

 

2000-05   Camelford gallery

 

2000        Falmouth art gallery Centenary exhibition

 

2003        Selected finalist in the Jerwood Drawing

 

  2003-09      Padstow studio

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

1986       Falmouth School of Art 

 

1992       Fisher gallery Wadebridge

 

1997       Plymouth Art Centre

 

1998       Gallery in der Gartenhouse, Rheda –wiedenbruck

 

2003       Mini retrospective at the Gaia Centre Delabole and Camelford Gallery

 

2006       Brian Sinfield Gallery Burford Oxfordshire

 

2007      Brian Sinfield Gallery Burford Oxfordshire

 

Works in public collections

 

 Cornwall Partnership Trust

 

Gallery in der Gartenhouse, Rheda –wiedenbruck

 

Skulpturenpark Willabadessen Germany

 

Publications 

 

Foundation course Drawing Anita Taylor /pub Cassell