Chris Roberts Exhibition
September 15 – December 15, 2022
at qathet ART @ VIU
Monday to Friday 8:30 to 4:30pm
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”, quote from the poem by Robert Burns “to a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough“, 1785
Like most folks at the beginning of the pandemic, all my plans went out the window. All normal life stopped and I needed something to keep me going.
Drawing did that for me.
I chose the name for the show based on the breadth of subject matter I had painted since I began. Only on remembering the whole quote did I realize how apropos it was, how most people had had their plans altered by the plague. It resulted in me taking this path, exploring portraiture and still life. This exhibition shows my progress from pencil drawing to water colour and then acrylic paint as well as my use of different painting substrates, paper, canvas, wood , and aluminum. My source material for inspiration started out being solely photographs gleaned from the internet. Lately, I have added drawing on things from nature, objects I find in my life here, plants and birds and animals. Most of these pieces are on found wood or bits sourced from friend’s reclamation piles.