Chris Hagan, 'Wooden Shack'

As an artist who depicts the world I see as well as the world inside my head, the drama of the forest has always intrigued me. Wood has an alchemy, gnarled, and twisted, living forms seemingly frozen in time but growing slowly. This piece belongs to a series of works that I have been creating and exploring since 2023. A body of work where the theatre and the forest combine, the stage becoming the natural canopy of trees, or the stage set as an internal recreation, the real and artificial combined through a journey to the distant past to the present through memory.

Chris Hagan is a contemporary visual artist based in East Sussex. Chris began his practice in 2017, producing abstract figurative and landscape-based works on canvas, paper, and mixed media. His works have been exhibited in the UK and are held in private collections worldwide including Germany, Franc, Spain, the United States, Canada, and Asia.

Found imagery and the stories of the people, places, landscapes and historical events of the North of England, Wales and in particular Ireland from the 1900s onwards often inform elements of his work, connecting the links of his own Irish/Northern English heritage. Exploring through visual means the path of historical modern life through long-standing traditions, folklore and memory.