* CHRISTOPHER WOOD RSW RGI PPSSA, WINTER'S GRASP

oil on board, signed, titled and dated 2004 verso framed and under glass image size 46cm x 51cm, overall size 59cm x 64cm Artist's label verso Label verso: Manor House Gallery, Chipping Norton Note: Christopher Wood trained at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with an Honours degree in Drawing & Painting in 1984. He has been a full-time professional artist since his first one-man exhibition in Edinburgh 1987. Inspired by the artist’s coastal environment near his home in Dunbar, Wood’s palette is infused with the reflection and absorption of light to be found in ever changing elements of Scottish land and seascape. Wood has won numerous prestigious awards. “My work encompasses landscape, seascape and abstraction, using oils, acrylics, collage and mixed media. My working practice is intuitive and improvisational - an approach which fosters the unexpected. Through the processes of painting, of layering and scraping, of looking and reacting, the work finds its own identity, with a purpose, history and a voice of its own. I endeavour to leave enough room for the viewer to engage with my work through the lens of their own experience." He is a Past-President of the Society of Scottish Artists, an elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and an elected member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Collections include: HM King Charles, the Bank of Scotland; Aberdeen Asset Management; United Distillers; Edinburgh University; Lennox Lewis; The Demarco European Foundation; MacRoberts Solicitors; Premier Property Group; Phoenix Equity Partners and many other private and corporate collections around the world.