Oil and Watercolour; Light and Texture

Christopher Gorey was born and educated in the United States and has been painting for over thirty years. After graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art with his degree in Art Education, Mr. Gorey taught for a year. His life-long ambition of becoming a fine artist beckoned him though, and after numerous visits and painting excursions to Atlantic Canada, he moved to the small coastal village of Ingonish on Cape Breton Island to take up painting full time. He still resides there with his wife and two children.

Mr. Gorey's career flourished quickly with solo and group exhibitions all across North America. In 1981 and again in 1987, Mr. Gorey's One Dollar Commemorative coin designs were chosen by the Royal Canadian Mint to be produced in silver. His paintings have won awards at the Jordan Marsh Show in Boston, The Juan de Fuca Arts Festival, Port Angeles, WA, the Watercolour Art Society of Houston's International Exhibition, as well as The Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolor in New Forge, NY. More recently, he has been elected to Signature Status Membership in the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC), and La Societe canadienne de l'aquarelle (SCA).

Mr. Gorey works in oil and watercolour, and his paintings, which reflect a feeling of light and texture, not only depict the people and beautiful landscape of Cape Breton Island, but other areas of Eastern Canada as well. A wide selection of his work can be viewed at Lynn's Craft Shop & Art Gallery in Ingonish, Nova Scotia. In addition, reproductions of Mr. Gorey's art can be viewed in the limited edition reproductions section of this web site.