Chris N Wood
STUDIO 3 ArtSpace Portsmouth 27 Brougham Rd Southsea PO5 4PA EMAIL chriswoodartist@aol.com
I am a figurative artist working in oils, watercolour and print
Born 1952 Ipswich Suffolk. Father : Eustace Neville Wood, Master Mariner, RN Officer : Mother Pat Wood Casualty Sister, musician, RYA Yachtmaster
EXPERIENCE
2026 7 exhibitions on the South and East Coast
2026 commissions include collaborating with local author to produce illustrations for her forthcoming book.
2020-2024 Omega Art School P/T Lecturer Fine Art, Drawing, Watercolour, Acrylic Painting.
2012-2020 P/T (first semester each year) University of Portsmouth Lecturer/ Demonstrator : Life Drawing, Visual Communication Delivering 12 x 2 hour sessions and marking / moderating for internal verification. BA Animation & BSc Computer Games undergraduates.
2012 Sept – Jan 2013 Portsmouth Grammar School : Artist in Residence
2005-2025 Independent Adult Education Provider Experimental Life Drawing
2000-2012 St Vincent College Programme Leader A level Fine Art and A level Graphic Design
1998-2000 Southampton City College : Programme Leader GNVQ art and design and Head of Fine Art
1997-1998 Team Leader Southampton City College
1995-2005 P/T Lecturer ArtSpace Portsmouth Advanced Life Drawing & Figurative Sculpture
1994- 97 P/T Lecturer St Vincent College responsible for GNVQ levels 1, 2, 3 A level Fine Art
1994 -97 P/T Lecturer HMP Kingston Portsmouth ceramic sculpture
1994- 7 P/T Lecturer St Vincent College : Sculpture
1994 -7 P/T Lecturer Portsmouth High School: Sculpture
1992- Launched Chris Wood Design
1983 – 93 Illustrations for Yachting World monthly magazine
1980 – 1992 Director Yachtmail Co Ltd
1976 sales executive Yachtmail Company Ltd London
1975 wrote and illustrated Simple Kites, first book for Studio Vista
1975 FINE ARTIST, Painter, Illustrator, Printmaker, Writer, Lecturer.
Showing at Artists Harbour Gallery Portsmouth, Jack House Gallery Old Portsmouth, New Ashgate Gallery Farnham, Bankside Gallery London, Greenhouse Gallery Ipswich, ArtSpace Gallery Woodbridge.
1975 – freelance illustrator Represented by Bill Bowen Davies of John Martin and Artists, Wardour St London : producing book jackets and editorial illustration for numerous UK publishers
1974 Visual Artist Typographic Services Ltd, central London Design Studio
1973-4 Wimbledon School of Art Post Graduate Diploma
1970-73 Ipswich School of Art 3 year course in Graphic Design leading to East Anglian Cert in Art & Design and LSIAD (Licentiate of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers)
1969-70 Ipswich School of Art Foundation Art & Design
SKILLS painting, illustration, fine art printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, typography. Project Management.
AWARDS : Wimbledon School of Art : 2 end of year awards Principal’s Prize for painting
ACHIEVEMENTS
