Above: Heron. Over page: Moorhen. Oil on board.
a lot more information in the field than I actually more and more layers. With each layer I refine the
get down on paper and I draw on those memories painting until eventually I’m able to stand back and
when I’m painting. With the aid of my field notes say, right, that’s it. I can’t do any more. It’s finished.”
and acrylic sketches, I’ll often rough out my ideas on Chris Rose was born in Uganda in 1959. His
a smaller scale to see how they come together. It’s father was a tea planter who ran extensive plantations
a conservative approach, but one that works for me. in the west of the country. Just before things turned
My large paintings are four feet by five feet and may pear-shaped under the dictatorship of President Idi
take two or three weeks to complete. I don’t want to Amin Dada, the family moved back to Britain where
put in all that effort if the composition turns out to his father eventually resumed the illustration and
be rubbish.” graphic design work in which he’d been trained
He starts with broad brushes, laying down large before the Second World War.
areas of tone, blocking in the basic composition and “ My older brother, Patrick was a talented artist,”
the areas of light and shade. “At that stage,” he said, Chris said. “There was always a fair bit of typical
“it’s easier to draw with a paint brush than it is with sibling rivalry between us and I suppose I was a bit
a pencil or charcoal. Gradually I build it up, adding jealous or frustrated by the fact that he could draw
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