Chris McLoughlin

Chris Mcloughlin captures the conscious experience and awareness of a place. Working from observation and inspired by his senses and emotions, McLoughlin pushes the boundaries of representational oil painting towards a more phenomenological approach.

This perception of the landscape is translated onto canvas through bold expressive brushwork and an intuitive relationship with colour. The subjects are invariably places that he knows well or visits often and include high mountaintops, Lakeland fells and sweeping valley corridors.

Over the years his work has taken him to places such as Tian Shan in Kazakhstan, Italy, Belgium, Scotland, France, the Lake District and the Orkney Islands.