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Christopher Broadhurst 
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Chris Broadhurst Studio
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 by Chris Broadhurst - Click for larger view
White Anemones
2009, Oil on Canvas
30 X 26 inches, 76 X 66 cm.

Remembering by Christopher Broadhurst - Click for larger view
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

 

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

Broadhurst Exhibition - October 1 - 17, 2010.
Conversations in Absentia

For Proust by Christopher Broadhurst - Click for larger view
For Proust
2009, Oil on Canvas
48 X 16 inches, 31 X 92 cm.

Midsummer/Midday by Christopher Broadhurst
Midsummer/Midday
2007, Oil on Canvas
62 x 48 inches, $ 8,000

 

 
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