Location: Austria
My interest in the portrait and the human figure and the way in which its body language can be interpreted has always been of great interest to me, looking into people as well as looking at them.
I try to maintain a sense of humanity in my work. I wish to create images that speak about an individual moment, about dignity or wholeness. From this I hope a relationship develops between sitter and viewer.
For further images and information please contact
or mail me at
christopher.leach@chello.at
Work taken from the 2008 exhibition 'Illustration Now'. City Gallery, Split, Croatia
Today’s society values the mass product, the copy, the internet, the knowledge over and above knowhow. This image represents the distortion and blurring that occurs in a high speed, dynamic society, throwing things at its citizens in a haphazard and rapid manner. The individual is subsumed by the external image he or she projects.
The photographic images are endlessly reprinted and copied until the original is forgotten. ‘’I want a print of this, a copy of that…’’ instant images for an uncertain age where the family photograph is a treasure of a safe past and a reminder that things change.
Graphite on Paper (60 x 40cm)
Graphite on Paper (60 x 40cm)
Graphite on Paper (60 x 40cm)
Graphite on Paper (60 x 40cm)
Graphite on Paper (60 x 40cm)
Series taken from the 2007 exhibition 'Illuminated Silence', Werkhaus Kalina, Vienna.
Oil on Canvas 190 x 120cm)
Oil on Canvas (190 x 140cm)
Oil on Canvas (190 x 140cm)
Oil on Canvas (120 x 60cm)
Oil on Canvas (60 x 70cm)
After Show Party I, II & III are taken from the 2004 exhibition 'Female Dignity'. Schloss Ulmerfeld, Austria.
Spotlight Interior and Three Graces are taken for the 2009 exhibition 'Now Figure'. Cal Gallery Vienna, Austria.
Oil on Canvas (160 x 170cm)
Oil on Canvas (180 x 150cm)
Oil on Canvas (180 x 160cm)
Oil on Canvas (170 x 100 cm)
Oil on Canvas (170 x 145cm)
Taken from the 2006 exhibition 'Venus and Adonis'. Gallery Himmelpfort, Vienna, Austria.
Oil on Canvas (150 x 140cm)
Oil on Canvas (150 x 140cm)
Oil on Canvas (150 x 160cm)
Oil on Canvas (110 x 120cm)
Oil on Canvas (130 x 170cm)
Oil on Canvas (110 x120cm)
Taken from the 2008 exhibition 'Reflective'. Gallery Peyer, Vienna, Austria.
Oil on Canvas (130 x 140cm)
Oil on Canvas (130 x 60cm)
Oil on Canvas (80 x 70cm)
A selection of commission and non-commission portraits
Oil on Canvas 95 x 85 cm
Oil on Canvas (95 x 85 cm)
Oil on Canvas (95 x 85 cm)
Oil on Canvas (95 x 85 cm)
Oil on Canvas (70 x 60 cm)
Oil on Canvas (80 x 60 cm)
“Keith Hawkins is Albrecht Durer!, 2010”
Oil on Canvas (80x 70 cm)
Oil on Canvas (100 x 100 cm)
Oil on Canvas (160 x 140 cm)
Oil on Canvas (160 x 110 cm)
Acrylic, Ink & Crayon on Paper (86 x 91 cm)
Acrylic, Ink & Crayon on Paper (92.5 x 89.5 cm)
Acrylic, Ink & Crayon on Paper (160 x 110 cm)
“Head-Andrew”
“Head-Elisabeth”
“Head-Victoria”
“Head-Craig”
“Head-Self”
“Illuminated Silence I”
“Illuminated Silence II”
“Illuminated Silence III”
“Illuminated Silence IV”
“Illuminated Silence V”
“After Show Party I”
“After Show Party II”
“After Show Party III”
“Spotlight Interior, 2009”
“Three Graces, 2008”
“Venus”
“Adonis”
“Girl on Sofa”
“Woman on Sofa”
“Reclining Woman”
“Woman on Green Sofa”
“Reflective”
“Reflective II”
“Magda, Olga & Alex”
“Alex In Reflection”
“Craig, 2003”
“Karima, 2003”
“Self, 2003”
“Elisabeth, 2003”
“Jason Gallager, 2004”
“Portrait of Jason, 2006”
“Magda, 2009”
“Andrew, 2000”
“Olga, 2008”
“Head Chef, 2010”
“Sisters I, 2010”
“Sisters II, 2010”
