Christopher Best

Mystery Forest

16 x 20

Oil

$1,250

Snow Day!

16 x 20

Oil

$1,350

The Dragon House

9 x 10

Oil

$525

The Flower Shop

Oil

11 x 14

$725

Sold

McDowell Hall

(St. Johns College Campus)

Oil

11 x 14

$725

Christopher Best Biography

In the footsteps of American painter George Bellows, Chris Best finds beauty in grit. From his  paintings of old wharfs to corner shops, life appears the way it is: unstaged and natural. 
 
Like his choice subject, Best’s technique is direct and immediate. His compositions are reinforced by long thick brush strockes that charge even negative space with the crafted solidty of form. The effect is a palpable sense of atmosphere, which captures the esssential mood of the scene.
 
As an undergraduate, Best began his artistic career Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA and continued under the instruction of Tim Bell, a fellow Maryland artist.  Best credits Bell as encouraging his “plein air” painting method. Best also studied figure drawing and painting with Robert Liberace at the Art League of Alexandria and at painting workshops in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., where he was first inspired by Bellows’approach to painting American life. 

Following some award-winning plein air competition events, Chris has been enjoying painting in Annapolis and the surrounding Chesapeake Bay area for his solo show and oil painting demonstration at McBride Gallery for the Annapolis Art Walk audience in August, 2018.

Dream Cottage

Oil

16 x 20

$1,250

Valentine Creek

Oil

8 x 10

$525

Leap of Faith

Oil

5 x 10

$750

Sold