Meet the Artist
Chris Volpe
ABOUT CHRIS:
With a graduate degree in poetry, Chris taught college English and art history for several years before falling in love with American landscape painting and becoming a professional artist. Drawing on that background, his work begins in mood and emotion, encompassing Tonalism and extending to abstraction through a contemporary sensibility. Chris paint on site, en plein air and from life, to absorb sensations and a visual vocabulary of place that later in the studio he tries to draw upon with greater freedom of expression. His Loomings series (based on Moby Dick) has been shown at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and his work concerning climate change has been part of an ongoing show called “Extraction".
Chris teaches oil painting year round. Venues include the Concord Art Association, Truro Center for the Arts, North Country Studio Workshops, Ogunquit Summer School of Art, and more. Chris has lead painting workshops on the Isles of Shoals, and lead painting trips overseas in the Scotland highlands.
He writes about art for Art New England Magazine and Inside Art from Streamline Publishing. He was awarded with the 2017 St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award and the Nellie Taft Grant for Outstanding Painting.
