Dubai: A long-time Sharjah resident’s oil paintings and murals celebrating life in the Gulf, landscape, wildlife and heritage will be on display for a month beginning May 22.
British artist Christopher Southcombe, who has been painting in oil and other mediums for well over 50 years, is well known for his desert landscapes and wildlife paintings, all realistically portrayed either on canvas or as large murals.
Caravan leaving Bithnah fort.
He mainly uses oils in most of his paintings and meticulously researches his subjects to showcase them in a way that take viewers into the painting itself.
Southcombe, who has been living in Sharjah for 20 years, had exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London and at the Mystic International Maritime Exhibition in Connecticut before coming to the Gulf. On his arrival in the UAE, he exhibited with the New Orientalists in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in 1997 as well as represented the UK in the Sharjah Biennial that year.
Since his last exhibition at Hunar Gallery in 2005, Christopher’s work has become in demand and it leaves him no time for further exhibitions.
Abra station.
Over the last few years, all his works, paintings, as well as large murals have been commissioned for hotels, malls, companies and private clients and for the ruling families in the UAE and Oman.
Southcombe, who first received his first set of oil paints for his 14th birthday, started painting professionally in 1989. This was following a long career in the Royal Navy and then in oil exploration as a geophysicist, during which time he kept painting and receiving commissions for his marine paintings,
Event details
What: ‘Images of the Gulf - Landscape, Wildlife and Heritage’, a solo exhibition by British artist Christopher Southcombe
Where: Hunar Gallery, Al Rashidiya
When: May 22 to June 22, 7.30pm to 9pm
