Chris Foster

 

​A bit of background

From 1967 to 1972, I spent 5 years studying visual arts at arts schools in England. Ever since leaving art school, I have always worked with visual arts alongside music. For many years I worked as a community artist and played an active role in developing the UK's community arts movement. Among a whole range of projects, I worked on large scale murals, both painted and mosaic, made photographic exhibitions developed and used portable photo-silkscreen equipment with a big variety of community groups, and I also worked in multi-disciplinary teams with drama workers, dancers, story tellers, textile artists and so on.

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Solo art exhibition in Reykjavík

Sjónarmið / Perspectives was my second solo exhibition of paintings here in Iceland. It was shown in the Gallery of the Society of Icelandic visual artists in Reykjavík from the 4th to the 27th November 2021. The show was well received by the people who attended it. It was very useful to see the work outside the studio setting and I certainly gained new insights through seeing it in an exhibition context and talking with the people who visited the show.

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"The paintings in the exhibition explored the ambiguities and connections between the works as physical objects, the rhythms and shapes on the paintings' surfaces, and the ways that the interplay of colour and tone affect our perception of these features." "It is my intention to make subtle paintings that cannot be 'taken in' or fully 'understood' quickly. They take a long time to execute, and seek to reward extended contemplation by the viewer."

 

Here is a little video that gives an idea of how the exhibition looked.​