ARTIST PROFILE
CHRIS THOMAS
email thomascj@btinternet.com
website www.christhomas.info
B. 1947
1965-69 Studied Fine art at Reading university.
1969-70 First stay in Cornwall on a David Murray landscape Award.
1972-3 Postgraduate degree in art psychotherapy at Hertfordshire
school of art.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1970 Reading University library/with Rosalind Eastman
1979 Selected finalist in the Westward TV open art
1979 North Cornwall Museum Camelford/with Rosalind Eastman
1979 Tintagel Arts festival
1980 North Cornwall Museum Camelford
1984 Dunheved gallery Launceston
1986 Brewhouse theatre Taunton Somerset
1988 Invited artist at the London group, Royal college of art
1989 Plymouth society of artists
1989 Invited artist Skulpturenpark Willabadessen Germany
1990 London group
1991 White lane gallery ,Plymouth
1991 Selected finalist in the South West Open
1992 Cheltenham School of art/with Ray Atkins
1993-5 North Cornwall Museum Camelford/with Ros Eastman
1993-5 Chapel gallery Saltram house Plymouth
1993 Bridgewater Art Centre/ with Henry Israel ,Caeria Strong
Rosalind Eastman
1994 Fisher gallery Wadebridge /with the North Cornwall Seven
1995 Selected finalist in the Sterts open
1995 Falmouth Art gallery /with the North Cornwall Seven
1996 Truro City art gallery/with the North Cornwall Seven
1995-8 Glastonbury festival, the Green field
1996 Chapel gallery Saltram house /with Ros Eastman and Ray Atkins
1996 Atrium gallery Kensington London
1996 Gallery in der Gartenhouse, Rheda–wiedenbruck
1997 Fisher gallery Wadebridge /with the North Cornwall Seven
1997 Bideford art centre /with the North Cornwall Seven
1998-01 Plain Street gallery North Cornwall
2000-05 Camelford gallery
2000 Falmouth art gallery Centenary exhibition
2003 Selected finalist in the Jerwood Drawing
2003-10 Padstow studio
2011 North Cornwall Museum /Gallery "40 years on" with Rosalind
Eastman
2011 Cadogan gallery London
2012 Lynne Strover gallery Fenn Ditton Three Cornish artists
2015 Selected finalist in the Northern New Light Art prize
2016 Selected finalist in the Columbia Threadneedle Prize
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Falmouth School of Art
1992 Fisher gallery Wadebridge
1997 Plymouth Art Centre
1998 Gallery in der Gartenhouse, Rheda –wiedenbruck
2003 Retrospective at the Gaia Centre Delabole and Camelford
Gallery
2006 Brian Sinfield Gallery Burford Oxfordshire
2007 Brian Sinfield Gallery Burford Oxfordshire
2010 Brian Sinfield Gallery Burford Oxfordshire
2015 Brian Sinfield Gallery Burford Oxfordshire
2015 Heseltine gallery ,Truro
Works in Private collection in New York ,Hong Kong ,Singapore, Germany , France and UK.