Artworks by Christopher Abrams

My work involves sitting at a desk, creating on a computer for hours on end. Art gives me the release, not only for my eyes, but also for my health. Being one with creating compares to nothing else. Due to a crisis a few years back, one of the ways to ground myself was to loose myself in my art - I have been doing it every since, building my own business slowly but surely.

Creatively, during the Pandemic of 2020 he decided to once again pick up the brush, inspired heavily by the work by Tom Croft, who painted portraits of the NHS workforce that dedicated their time to one of the most unsure, difficult periods of the 21st century.

Tom banded together artists from all walks of life to give back a small token of appreciation in the only way artists could; an original piece of art of the heroes that kept us safe. It told a narrative, you could see that on every single portrait.

Taking note Chris wanted to couple the screen time with something real, tangible, something that is creative but deflects away from all the computers and phones of today. Of course, we all had time to re-evaluate what was important, what matters to us.

He found a closer connection to wildlife, from robins to foxes, whales to penguins. “It made me stop and think. We share this world with many others, not only people, but we also share it with a multitude of animals.

Only when I take time to explore what we share the planet with do you begin to understand the sheer scale of different species that inhabit this rock. It's absolutely mind blowing. It's something to celebrate, something to protect.”

Escapism is something that organically follows. That is what drives the works he produces.