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Ineke, Chris Broadhurst and
Margaret in the studio June, 2005
Double Vision
2006, Oil on Canvas
30 X 26 inches, 76 X 66 cm.
White Anemones
2009, Oil on Canvas
30 X 26 inches, 76 X 66 cm.
Remembering
2008, Oil on Canvas
36 X 46 inches, 91 X 117 cm.
Biography Works
by Christopher Broadhurst
Conversations
in Absentia
Themes and Variations Exhibition
Corinthian Variations Exhibition
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Conversations In Absentia
"...As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the
pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense
moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime
burning in every moment..."
T S Eliot from East Coker
I think of the works in this exhibition, and this is true of
all my current work, as a kind of time travel. They are a
drawing out, from memory, of the threads of sensations, people, places,fragrances, objects, ideas and
relationships.....things from an ever expanding past.....and a
melding of them with their equivalents in an increasingly
changeable present. My hope is to create something that is more
than mere reflection paired with observation of momentary
experience. I am searching for something that also carries with
it an emotional weight that is both familiar and new.... something
personal that celebrates and mourns and rejoices in the act of
being.
I came to still life painting more than thirty years ago.I had
expected it to be a brief liaison, a way to work myself out of a
creative block that was keeping me from what seemed at the time to
be more honourable, purely abstract pursuits.
Instead still life became ‘ a habit that liked me and stayed
‘. It has had the advantage of being considered by many to be an
old fashioned and unfashionable pursuit.This has given me the
freedom to develop a personal language without the concerns and
the dogma of any current trend and has allowed me an unencumbered
exploration of my own interior landscape.
Christopher Broadhurst, September, 2010
For Proust
2009, Oil on Canvas
48 X 16 inches, 31 X 92 cm.
Midsummer/Midday
2007, Oil on Canvas
62 x 48 inches, $ 8,000
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