Rainbow Bear (A3 Poster Print) by artist Wayne Chisnall

If you liked any of the mini oil paintings/sketches from Wayne Chisnall’s 2019/20 ‘100 Paintings in 12 Months Project’ you might be interested to know that the artist has had these (this one included) A3-sized poster prints made of some of his favourite pieces from the series.

As with most of paintings from this series, ‘Rainbow Bear’ (that this print is taken from) was painted directly onto the painting’s surface without any preliminary drawings or much in the way of the artist knowing what he was about to paint from the moment that he applied paintbrush to paint. Chisnall found this form of automatic painting very liberating and a fruitful creative exercise. It not only revealed new ideas and characters to him, but it also allowed him to be more experimental with the way he applied paint.

The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper, with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of things we especially like about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and shadows from where the paint was more thickly applied in the original painting. 

If you would like the artist to sign your poster print please mention this when you purchase the print, otherwise an unsigned one will be dispatched.

There are more poster prints to come and all of them are priced at £20 each with free UK postage.

 

A bit about the artist – 

Wayne Chisnall  (biog)

Working as a multidisciplinary artist (sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing and illustration), Wayne Chisnall is a Royal Society of Sculptors ‘Bursary Award’ winner.

His work has been featured in books, magazines, articles, feature films and on TV. He exhibits nationally (venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum) and internationally, having a sculpture in the permanent collection of the Black Gold Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 

Chisnall’s early sculptures were life-size fibreglass versions of model kits but he now works predominantly with found materials.

He won the Amazing Art Award in the 2017 Dyslexia Awards, an annual awarding body on whose panel he is now a judge.

Actor, John Malkovich, chose Chisnall's script, 'Doppelganger', as the winning entry in the 2008 Sony Scriptwriting competition. This script, along with Malkovich's was then turned into the animation, 'Snow Angel’.

“I’m going to go with the “Doppelganger” script. It’s clever, inventive, and somehow both surprising and inevitable. Very neatly done all in all.” John Malkovich (4th Jan. 2008). 

As well as working on his own projects the artist accepts commissions. His clients include Converse, The Vaults London, Brooke Roberts Innovation Agency, the luxury fashion brand Éthologie by Jasper Garvida, Mary Fox Linton, Andy Martin Architects, Dawood and Tanner, Domus, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Ctrl.Alt.Shift, various private collectors, and the Ping Pong restaurant chain, for whom he designed the interior artwork and decor of their restaurant opposite Wembley Stadium. In 2022 he was selected to exhibit at the Crafts Council's COLLECT art fair at Somerset House, London.

Chisnall also runs art workshops for schools, businesses and hospitals, including Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

“Wayne Chisnall creates art that references such things as structure, time and Modernism as they pass through a very contemporary mindset that focuses on humour, transience, functionality and futility. There is also the presence of popular culture in his thinking, as he addresses the differences between reality and perception, and how that affects the needs, wants and even the formation of the human psyche.” D. Dominick Lambardi, 'Repurposing With a Passion', The Huffington Post, 2014. 

“Chisnall’s towering wooden piece is made up of tiny display cases and cabinets made from found materials like skulls, insects and fossils, a kind of modern cabinet of curiosities. Or a nightmarish vision inspired by Jorge Luis Borges. He explains that much like the inhabitants of a big city, each compartmentalised environment plays out its own narrative, seemingly oblivious to that of its neighbour”. Julia Kollewe (journalist – The Guardian & The Independent), 2009.