AWARD-WINNING PORTRAIT & LANDSCAPE ARTIST BASED IN THE WEST MIDLANDS, UK.
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Hi, I’m Chris Davies (Christoff3000) – an award-winning portrait and landscape artist based in Sedgley, West Midlands, UK. I work mainly in acrylic, oil and watercolour paints.
I’ve exhibited across the UK, including:
- RBSA Gallery, Birmingham (2024 & 2026)
- The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2022)
- Houses of Parliament, London (2024)
- Regularly Featured in Local Media
Working from my studio in the West Midlands, I am a figurative painter using acrylic, oil, and watercolour across portraiture, local landscapes, wildlife, and social commentary. Grounded in observational drawing, I build layered surfaces where expressive brushwork and underlying colour carry emotional weight rather than passive decoration.
For me, painting is an act of witness and responsibility, paying serious attention to the world as it is while questioning what we choose to pass on. Across my practice, I document overlooked human stories, from portraits of refugees and frontline workers to works that confront political division, ecological loss, and inherited cultural habits. Alongside this, my landscapes record familiar places and wildlife on my doorstep, treating everyday surroundings as heritage worth noticing and protecting.
Rather than making work solely for present delight, I aim to create honest, lasting visual records that hold our moment to account. By pairing human empathy with direct storytelling, my practice asks what stewardship we owe to one another and the natural world, hoping to encourage a more thoughtful, compassionate future that our descendants will thank us for.
I offer:
- Original art on canvas and paper
- Custom portraits and landscape paintings based on your ideas or photos
- Pet portraits based on photos of your furry or feathered friends
- Bespoke commissions and original art for sale in a variety of mediums
In The Blooding/Village Fête, I examine how romanticised English traditions and online far-right ideologies shape the values passed on to future generations. Set against an idyllic British landscape of rolling hills, sheep, and wildflowers, a boy in tweed sits in a wooden chair with blood smeared across his face—the hunting custom of initiating a child after a first kill—while a lifeless fox rests in his lap.
Behind him, two smiling women present a Victoria sponge cake, framing an act of violence within the comforting rituals of village heritage and hospitality. By placing cosy domestic celebration beside a dead wild animal and a blooded child, I question which traditions deserve to endure and what stewardship we owe the natural world.
The boy represents those individuals whose outward, public demeanour attempts to convey respectability and success (such as Nigel Farage, Donald Trump et al), but which conceals something much darker and narcissistic…
This painting was created in response to the rise in far-right politics in the UK. I began working on it shortly after the Raise the Colours rally in London, and became fascinated by the Christian nationalism and symbolism which were being promoted at this so-called ‘family friendly’ event.
The main figure, Daddy Toxic, represents the angry people on social media who think nothing of making threats to anyone who disagrees with them. His son walks alongside on this lonely pilgrimage, unsure of why he’s there…
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