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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 16:46:16+00:00

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48″ x 36″ (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2015. Visit the Collections page to see the complete NAKED MUSIC series.
48″ x 36″ (122 x 91cm) oil on canvas 2012. Visit the Collections page to see this and more in the Still Life section. In 2018, this major work was shown in Southwell Minster, in a mixed show with Tai Shan Schierenberg and Ray Richardson. It is available from IAP Fine Art.
48″ x 36″ (122 x 91cm) mixed media on panel 1998. Private collection.
60″ x 24″ (152 x 61cms) acrylic on canvas 2013. Private collection. Featured in the national touring exhibition and exhibition catalogue 'Incarnation, Mary & Women from the Bible'. See Collections page for further details.
10ft x 3ft (3m x 91cm) in 5 panels, first four 36" x 24" (91 x 61cm) oil on canvas, fifth 36" x 24" (91 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2014. This major work is available from IAP Fine Art. See Collections page for further details on how this painting came about.
36" x 48" (91 x 122cm) acrylic on canvas 2008. Private collection. See Early Thoughts series on Collections page for more information.
36" x 48" (91 x 122cm) acrylic on canvas 2017. This major work is available from IAP Fine Art. It is Chris Gollon's response to a the song 'Gimme Some Wine' that Eleanor McEvoy wrote for Chris Gollon, inspired by his paintings and dedicated to him.
8ft x 6ft (244 x 183cm) acrylic on canvas 2013. For more information, see 'Incarnation, Mary & Women from the Bible on Collections page). This work is available from IAP Fine Art.
40" x 30" (101 x 76cm) acrylic on canvas 2007. Church of St John on Bethnal Green. See Stations of the Cross on Collections page.
48″ x 36″ (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2016. This painting is available from IAP Fine Art.
60" x 48" (153 x 122cm) acrylic on canvas 2004. This painting was purchased in 2005 by the Huddersfield Art Gallery for its permanent collection, where it hangs alongside Sir Jacob Epstein's bust of Einstein and works by Francis Bacon, Walter Sickert and Henry Moore. See the Museums section of the Collections page.
36" x 24" (91 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2016. This painting is available from IAP Fine Art.
24" x 36" (61 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2016. This painting is available from IAP Fine Art.
30" x 22" (76 x 56cm) acrylic on paper 2016. Private collection.
22" x 30" (56 x 76cm) acrylic on paper 2016. Private collection. Chris Gollon only used 3 colours in this painting: black, white and burnt sienna; yet he achieved some beautiful optical greys that almost seem blue in the flesh tones.
30" x 22" (76 x 56cm) acrylic on paper 2016. Private collection. Rembrandt only just escaped going into the debtor's prison, saved at the last by his son.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2016. Private collection. When only a young man, Chris Gollon visited Toledo Cathedral, with its unusual jet-black interior flecked with gold, where when Cardinals die they hang their hats from the ceiling on chains and let the ornate fabrics just rot away. Chris never forgot that strangeness combined with the display of El Greco's heads of the Saints and his ’Disrobing of Christ'. This mysterious painting is partially inspired by that memory.
18" x 24" (46 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2016. Strangely, despite Chris Gollon's abiding fear of fish (described well by art historian Tamsin Pickeral in her excellent book on his life and work Humanity in Art), Gollon is actually very good at painting them. This time he has taken as his subject matter the John Dory, which is also known as St Peter's Fish, since legend says that the dark spot on the fish's flank is the thumbprint of St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. Chris Gollon decided to paint three 'Still Life With John Dory', each using a different technique in acrylic paint. One was painted alla prima (wet into wet), another using a layered technique of thin glazes. This one in grisaille, a technique first used by Breughel in which the only colours used are black, white, brown and ochre. Gollon’s grisaille replaces ochre with burnt sienna, which gives it a remarkable luminosity.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) oil on canvas 2017. Private collection. See Last Paintings on the Collections page for further details.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2017. Private collection. See Last Paintings on the Collections page for further details.
36" x 24" (91 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2015. Private collection. Visit the Collections page to see the complete NAKED MUSIC series.
20″ x 24″ (51 x 61cms) acrylic on canvas 2010. Private collection. For more information on Chris Gollon's innovations in the genre, visit Still Life on the Collections page.
24″ x 24″ (61 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2011. Private collection. For more information on Chris Gollon's innovations in the genre, visit Still Life on the Collections page.
48″ x 36″ (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2015. Private collection. Visit the Collections page to see the complete NAKED MUSIC series.
60" x 60" (152 x 152cm) acrylic on canvas 2013. Private collection.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) mixed media on panel 1998. Private collection. Nick Soulsby's excellent new book (Omnibus 2017) features a fascinating interview with Chris Gollon about his painting 'The House of Sleep', inspired by the tape Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) sent him along with an invitation to take part with David Bowie and Yoko Ono in ROOT, a crossover exhibition of contemporary art and music, at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. For more information, visit Publications page.
24" x 20" (61 x 51cm) acrylic on canvas 2011. For more information on Chris Gollon's innovations in the genre, visit Still Life on the Collections page.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2006. Private collection.
36" x 48" (91 x 122cm) acrylic on canvas 2008. Commissioned by the award-winning River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, this painting now hangs in the museum's permanent collection alongside works by Raoul Dufy and John Piper. See Museum & Public Acquisitions section of the Collections page.
30" x 22" (76 x 56cm) acrylic on paper 2015. Private collection. As his national touring exhibition 'Incarnation, Mary & Women from the Bible' came to each cathedral, Chris Gollon added in a new work or works. For Chichester, having just read Carol Ann Duffy's 'The World's Wife' and following a conversation with Canon Chancellor Dr Anthony Cane, Chris Gollon became the first artist in history to paint Judas Iscariot's wife. Unveiled at Chichester, Gollon's painting 'Judas' Wife' attracted national media attention, since he chose not to imagine her as a money-grabbing woman just after the 30 pieces of silver, as depicted in early Christian writings; but rather as a woman imploding with grief as she grasps in one hand her husband's suicide note, while also hearing news of the forthcoming Crucifixion. BBC broadcaster Clare Balding while interviewing Chris Gollon suggested he had managed to depict the sheer swollenness of grief, to which he replied "yes, she is almost beyond grief". The first image of Judas's Wife was in acrylic on paper. He then painted two more images of the subject in oil on canvas and acrylic on canvas. To see a national television interview with Chris Gollon regarding this image at Chichester Cathedral, click Films. More information is also on the Collections page.
36" x 48" (91 x 122cm) acrylic on canvas 2011. Private collection.
39.5″ x 29.6″ (100 x 75 cms) oil over acrylic on canvas 2011. Private collection.
24″ x 18″ (61 x 46 cms) acrylic on canvas 2012. Private collection.
48″ x 36″ (122 x 91cms) acrylic on canvas 2011. Private collection.
48″ x 36″ (122 x 91 cm) acrylic on canvas 2011. This painting is available from IAP Fine Art.
24” x 48” (61 x 122cms) mixed media on panel 1995. Private collection. This work is featured in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See publications page for details. In the mid-1990s Chris Gollon painted a series of works partially inspired by Sebastian Brandt's poem 'The Ship of Fools'. Narragonia being the Fool's Paradise. Instead of a sea voyage, Gollon made his series into a sort of road movie of fools trying to reach Narragonia. In Brandt's time, society was soon as led by fools and navigated by fools, folly being deemed the greatest weakness of the human condition.
48" x 24" (122 x 61cm) mixed media on panel 1997. This painting is available from IAP Fine Art. It is featured in two publications by art historian Tamsin Pickeral, one her best-selling 'THE DOG: 5,000 Years of the Dog in Art History' and in her biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See publications page for details.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) mixed media on panel 1998. Private collection. Featured in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details.
20" x 39" (51 x 99cm) acrylic on canvas 2007. Available from IAP Fine Art, this painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details. See also the Still Life section of the Collections page.
16" x 47" (40.5 x 119.5cm) acrylic on canvas 2007. Private collection. This painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details. See also the Still Life section of the Collections page.
18" x 24" (46 x 56cm) acrylic on canvas 2006. Private collection. Featured in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details. See also the Still Life section of the Collections page.
Installation with seven canvases, 60" x 36" (152 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2004. Available from IAP Fine Art. This painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details. See also the Still Life section of the Collections page. Goya was the first painter in history to paint meat or game without any culinary implements, making it more a mute accusation of murder. Chris Gollon takes this a stage further, making a Cross from salmon still life, with the bloodiest where the Centurion's spear would have entered the side of Christ.
48" x 60" (122 x 153cm) acrylic on canvas 2010. Private collection. This painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details.
In four canvases, 72" x 48" (183 x 122cm) acrylic on canvas 2014. Available from IAP Fine Art.
36" x 48" (91 x 122 cm) acrylic on canvas 2002. Private collection. This painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) mixed media on panel 2000. Private collection. This painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details.
32" x 32" (81 x 81cm) acrylic on canvas 2006. Private collection. This painting features in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details.
40" x 30" (101 x 76cm) oil over acrylic on canvas 2011. Available from IAP Fine Art.
48" x 36" (122 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2010. Private collection. To see a film of Chris Gollon painting this image, visit the Films page.
24″ x 36″ (61 x 91cm) acrylic on canvas 2015. Available from IAP Fine Art. The first version of this painting is in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details. Chris Gollon revisited the previous image using his newly developed form of grisaille, using just three colours: black, white and burnt sienna. The image seems to embody a rock n' roll hangover, with 'Remorse' etched on the wall.
36″ (91 x 61cm) acrylic on canvas 2015. Private collection. The first version of this painting is in art historian Tamsin Pickeral's biography, CHRIS GOLLON: Humanity in Art (Hyde & Hughes, 2010). See Publications page for details. Chris Gollon revisited the previous image using his newly developed form of grisaille, using just three colours: black, white and burnt sienna.

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