Elsewhere, in the quiet provinces the artist can easily find himself surrounded by melancholias. Lost in thought he sits at the secluded windows of his medieval digs, a strange twilight flowing all about him, and without so much as stirring he sends his daydreams out onto the sweeping landscape. No one comes. Nothing disturbs his reverie. An inexpressible silence rules the surrounds.
Robert Walser
Two Tree Island, Essex, 2018
Christopher Gee (b.1987) is a British artist from Portsmouth, England. He lives and works on the Thames Estuary, Essex. His small scale works on paper invite us into a world of silence, where solitude and aloneness prevail. Through a limited palette, his work evokes nocturnal atmospheres, where the passage of time feels both transient and infinite. The muted palette suggest a space suspended between reality and imagination—evoking a quiet introspection.
Gee’s practice is grounded in the concept of the outsider, working away from the crowd, and it is in this solitude that his work finds its voice. His landscapes—often at dusk, half-lit, and imbued with a sense of melancholy—speak to a profound isolation, where the ruins of civilization and the quiet existence of solitary figures coexist in a fragile harmony.
The characters in his paintings are wanderers, lost in thought, traversing spaces of profound aloneness and yearning. These spaces are populated by solitary animals and vernacular buildings, suspended in a dreamlike state, where time seems to stretch and fold into itself.
Influenced by folk art, naïve painting, Northern Renaissance imagery, and Romantic landscapes, Gee’s work weaves together fragmented visual narratives that explore the tension between the fleeting and the eternal, the visible and the imagined. Each piece is an invitation to reflect on the human experience, captured in the quiet, reflective moments between thought and being.
EXHIBITIONS
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
Dec 2024 — Jan 2025
Winter Show(online), Hampstead art society, London
Dec 2024
Elsewhere, Solo show Hawk and Hive, Andes, Upstate New York
16th March - 16th April 2024
Abbot and Holder, London
1st March 2024
Conduit Gallery, Group show, Dallas, Texas, US
2023 Dec 2 - 30
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
FRMD, Group show, Leyton, London
Sept 2023
FRMD, Winter Group show, Clapton, London
2022
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2021
Winter Show, Amanda Aldous Gallery, Hampshire
2021
Winter Exhibition, 155a Gallery, Dulwich, London
7 Dec 2020 — 23 Jan 2021
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
Dec 2020 — Jan 2021
Sophie Breitmeyer, The Art Registry, London
2020
Our Home, The Table Hay, Hay-On-Wye, Wales
2020
Places Dreamed/Real, Studio E Gallery, Seattle, US
2020
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2019 - 2020
Present Day, Candida Stevens, Chichester, West Sussex
2019
Paris Fashion Week Collaboration with Uniforme-Paris
2018
Absence / Presence, Galerie La Boucherie, Brittany, France
2018
Liberty, London
2017
Paul Smith, Mayfair, London
2017
Elsewhere, Solo Show Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, US
2017
Vanishing Point, James Freeman Gallery, London
2016
The Silk, James Freeman Gallery, London
2016
Into the Night, Solo Show, James Freeman Gallery, London
2015
40 Contemporary British Painters, The Crypt Gallery, London
2014
The Winter Garden, James Freeman Gallery, London
2014
The Last Man, James Freeman Gallery, London
2014
Parcours d'Artistes, Saint-Gilles Culture, Brussels
2014
Wimbledon MA Drawing Interim Show, The National Gallery, London
2012
RESIDENCIES
Residency 108, Germantown, Upstate New York
Autumn 2018
EDUCATION
MA Drawing UAL Wimbledon College of Art London, 2012
BA Drawing UAL Camberwell College of Art London, 2010
Fine Art Foundation UAL Byam Shaw School Central Saints Martins London, 2007