by ChrisHeirani | Mar 3, 2007
In order to see familiar places from unfamiliar perspectives I decided to paint a series of vertical paintings from the cliff tops of the coast of Cornwall. Mullion Cove is depicted in evening light that accentuates the structure of the harbour, built between 1893 and...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 2, 2006
I have been painting the Dorset coast for 40 years. These paintings are based on specific places, they are also about journeys and natural phenomena, and looking at the work invites imaginative travel into the distant past. My work about the coast reflects a journey...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 2, 2005
Surrounded by gentler and more gentrified counties, save for its embattled border with the sea, Dorset instantly presents itself as a place apart – even at the subtlest northern edges mobile phone signals can thrillingly cease. We have enjoyed the most dramatic...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 3, 2001
To the artist Paul Nash, writing his Shell Guide to Dorset in the 1930s, ‘Corfe is probably the finest example of a ruin we can show in England, and that is saying much’. It has been painted by artists as good as Nash and J. M. W. Turner, by distinguished...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 2, 2001
Three hundred miles off the northeast coast of Brazil is the miniature archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. Rising from the ocean floor 13,000 feet below sea level an underwater mountain emerges from a turquoise sea, culminating in a 1,060 foot high peak of rugged grey...