New Featured Artist / Chris Morgan

Chris Morgan


Artist Statement + Biography
I Never went to art college - something I regretted years later. At the time I couldn’t wait to leave school, start work and earn some money - that was the plan.
I didn’t really give a lot of thought to long term career objectives. Luckily I had a natural talent for art and pursued it as a hobby teaching myself as I went from one unfulfilling job to another.
I was lucky enough to get taken on by a computer graphics company called where I could put my artistic bent to use for the first time. In a very short while I was promoted to head of graphics and over a 5 year period was personally responsible for producing 8,000 images for a number of prestige clients such as The Daily Telegraph and Guy Laroche.
I left Probe Research in order to fulfill a lifelong ambition to work in the field of superhero comics. I set up my own publishing company and we produced 12 different titles a month mainly for the American market. In this country the comics were sold exclusively through Virgin Megastore shops and Hamleys in London. Unfortunately I over - extended myself and the company went into liquidation.
Since then I have diversified into and other media. Including painting over 70 of the hotels in the Bournemouth area where I am now based. Doing murals for restaurants and nightclubs. Running a watercolour portrait business. Plus a mail order art prints company which is a vehicle to sell prints of my paintings that cover every subject from football clubs to wild animals.I also do a range of homoerotic paintings for the gay market