Christof's Art Newsletter

My surfaces are built like palimpsests—layers of different materials conversing. I love combining acrylics with oil pastels, graphite, or bits of p...

When a canvas stretches taller than me, my body becomes part of the mark. I paint standing, crouching, stepping back, lunging forward. It’s perform...

I don’t see brushes as tools; I see them as extensions of temperament.

Heavy-body acrylics let me sculpt light as much as colour.

When I paint, I’m not delivering a puzzle to solve. I’m building conditions for feeling—through colour tension, gesture velocity, and spatial press...

Paint isn’t neutral—it dictates tempo, emotion, and surface behaviour. I work mostly with heavy-body acrylics because they match my pace. They dry ...

Scale isn’t just measurement—it’s behaviour.

For me, authenticity isn’t about autobiography on the sleeve; it’s about consequences visible on the surface

Every painting negotiates a treaty between chaos and control.

I don’t literally see sound, but music gives me spatial cues

I leave seams showing: brushstrokes that double back, edges that don’t align

Colour is my emotional barometer. I’m drawn to unstable harmonies—pairs that almost clash, then sing.