He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2006 and was Vice-President and President of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) between 2006 and 2011.
He is also an elected professional member of SSA, VAS, PAI and a Fellow of the Glasgow Art Club.
Awards include The Sir William Gillies Award, The Armour Award, The James Torrance Memorial Award and The Glasgow Art Club Fellowship (twice).
His work can be found in many collections both in the UK and abroad including HRH Prince Charles the Duke of Rothesay, Aberdeen Asset Management, the Bank of Scotland, United Distillers and Edinburgh University.
‘The art of Christopher Wood RSW is defined by immersion in the materiality of painting as a transformative process. This latest body of work reflects the evolution of Wood’s practice in a series of paintings and mixed media works which display the artist’s tenacity and skill; balancing instinctual, spontaneous marks with structural elements of composition.
Inspired by the artist’s coastal environment near his home in Dunbar, Wood’s palette is infused with the reflection and absorption of light to be found in ever changing elements of Scottish land and seascape.
The artist’s choice of colour echoes the relationship to subject in his work; defined not by naturalism but the visualisation of an interior world, both sensual and cerebral.
The opaque qualities of acrylic often used in his mixed media works create subtly layered surfaces that heighten our sense of illumination through abstraction.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
COLLECTIONS
Include HRH Prince Charles the Duke of Rothesay, the Bank of Scotland, United Distillers, Edinburgh University, Lennox Lewis, The Demarco European Foundation, MacRoberts Solicitors, Premier Property Group, Standard Chartered Bank, Phoenix Equity Partners and many other private and corporate collections around the world.
