HMS Victory in Battle Print by Chris N. Wood
We now have giclee prints available from the fabulous new picture of HMS Victory by Portsmouth’s artist Chris N. Wood. As you may know if you read our newsletter, Chris started this picture following a suggestion of someone in the Ministry of Defence. The idea behind that truly gorgeous small-scale oil painting of HMS Victory (Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar), was to create a truly iconic image of the Royal Navy.
We’ve now scanned the original oil painting before it gets sent to its new owner, a collector from Portugal who bought the picture while Chris was working on it in our gallery during a reception.
Chris was born in Suffolk in 1952. He studied at Ipswich School of Art followed by a post graduate year at Wimbledon School of Art. This led to working as a graphic designer in central London, running a successful yacht chandlery and working freelance as a fine artist and illustrator. He has taught fine art in a number of colleges and institutions and currently teaches full time at St Vincent College in Gosport. His work is multi-disciplinary, often biographical and reflects his varied interests. Drawing is central to his practice, as are the relationship of line and form.
Chris is passionate about the sea and this is a recurring theme in both his two and three-dimensional work.
He has been a member of Art Space, Portsmouth for the last ten years and has exhibited painting and sculpture both in his native East Anglia and along the South coast.
