Welcome to my new Curatorial Project.
After successfully completing my post graduate course in editorial illustration (nearly 50 years ago) I worked in a central London design studio as a visual artist. This was a marvellous opportunity and I learnt a lot very quickly.
Next, I hired the services of an artists agent and jumped ship to become a full time illustrator, producing paintings for book jackets for most of the top UK publishers. I also wrote and illustrated my first book, “Making Simple Kites” for Studio Vista. This led to creating hundreds of illustrations for everything from in-flight magazines to yachting journals and black and white line illustrations for catalogues and advertising.
I aim to curate this page, adding various projects from time to time. It will not be a complete, chronological portfolio, more of a scrap book featuring projects that I enjoyed doing. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed working with Yachting World and every project was fun !
Yachting World magazine : Heavy Weather Sailing Part 3 : storm off S Africa. “Surfing down the mountainous waves under bare poles”. Watercolour on illustration board. Copyright Chris N Wood
Yachting World : October 1991 : Heavy Weather Sailing : “Sadler 34 in the Western Approaches” Watercolour on Watercolour Board copyright Chris N Wood
Every year for about 15 years I created a bespoke Christmas Card for International Yacht Designer Ken Freivokh. The illustrations featured the boats that he and his team had worked upon that year. Over the years the cards became more ludicrous and packed with all sorts of narratives – here we see KF with his latest toy – a remote controlled helecopter, the “team” are each wearing a Swan Lake Costume. The real challenge each year was fitting all his projects into one cohesive composition. The cards were sent off to hundreds of his worldwide customers and suppliers and became highly collectable prints.
Technical illustration / advertising flyer for RF200 (red Fox) 20’ trailer sailor. Copyright Chris N Wood
artists impression for new marina copyright Chris N Wood
The Victory Pub sign, digitally produced from the original oil painting which now resides in a Boatyard in Portugal. Copyright Chris N Wood
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