Chris Collingwood's
book cover art for novels by leading fiction novelists including
landscapes showing Cornwall, Whitby, Liverpool and other coastal scenes.
These original paintings are offered for the first time.
Chris has produced a wealth of
impressive paintings from the Napoleonic War. American Civil War,
English Civil War, and a variety of Portraits of Great Military Leaders,
He also has produced superb paintings of Pirates, a particular favourite
of his. These superb paintings are available as Signed Limited edition
prints for you to enjoy. Most images are shown on this site in the
various Gallery's indicated.
Chris studied at Berkshire College of Art 1966 - 1970
and then worked for Halas and Batchelor as a background artist. In the
golden age of book cover illustration Chris made the Gunslinger, Crow
and Herne series his own. To this day the shelves of High Street
booksellers are full of his work. Perhaps his best known popular pieces
are in the now famous Jorvik Centre's paintings which form the focus of
the exhibitions promotion and won a travel industry award. In recent
years his best work has been paintings, such as SPQR, Anne Bonny, Mary
Reid and Calico Jack Rakam and Blackbeard in Damnation Seize My Soul.
Chris's super realistic style, using oils, brilliantly
reflects the techniques.. passion and depth of the old masters he has a
particular love of portraiture, which his new portraits of Wellington
and William of Orange certainly reflects along with others from the
English Civil war his love of the subject. He is also fascinated by the
awful romance of weaponry and war. Chris uses traditional Dutch paints
made today, as in 1664, and is meticulous in his research and attention
to detail, so scarce in our modern throw away society. Sir Anthony Van
Dyke, William Dobson, Sir Peter Lely and Fortunio Matania played a vital
part in Chris's formative years. He also is much influenced by
Meissonier and De Neuville
