Christopher Rainham

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  • Christopher Rainham, In Realms of Rhubarb and Robins
    In Realms of Rhubarb and Robins£ 1,100.00
  • Christopher Rainham, In the Ghost's Mooonshine
    In the Ghost's Mooonshine£ 1,100.00
  • Christopher Rainham, In the Sun and Rain for Weeks
    In the Sun and Rain for Weeks£ 1,100.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Four Blue Tits on Hawthorn Leaves
    Four Blue Tits on Hawthorn Leaves £ 300.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Pied Wagtail on Oak Leaves
    Pied Wagtail on Oak Leaves£ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Robin on Hazel Leaves
    Robin on Hazel Leaves£ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Sparrows and Oak Leaves
    Sparrows and Oak Leaves£ 300.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Did I dream?
    Did I dream?£ 1,100.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Two Treecreepers
    Two Treecreepers£ 300.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Blue Tit, Pied Wagtail, Sparrow, Wren, Robin
    Blue Tit, Pied Wagtail, Sparrow, Wren, Robin
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  • Christopher Rainham, Inherited Coats
    Inherited Coats
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  • Christopher Rainham, Starling and Prozac
    Starling and Prozac £ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Swallow
    Swallow £ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Three Blue Tits on Oak Leaves
    Three Blue Tits on Oak Leaves £ 300.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Three Wood Warblers
    Three Wood Warblers £ 300.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Wood Warbler on Maple Leaf
    Wood Warbler on Maple Leaf £ 120.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Cabbage White on Blue
    Cabbage White on Blue £ 120.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Cabbage Whites
    Cabbage Whites £ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Chalk Path Common Blue
    Chalk Path Common Blue
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  • Christopher Rainham, Something I Should Learn To Love
    Something I Should Learn To Love
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  • Christopher Rainham, Two Stones and Ladybird
    Two Stones and Ladybird
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  • Christopher Rainham, Thrift and Hag Stone
    Thrift and Hag Stone £ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Three Stones
    Three Stones £ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Shell and Hag Stones
    Shell and Hag Stones £ 120.00
  • Christopher Rainham, Hag Stone II
    Hag Stone II£ 120.00
  • Christopher Rainham, An Egg and a Stone
    An Egg and a Stone £ 240.00
  • Christopher Rainham, The Game of Forfeits Done
    The Game of Forfeits Done£ 600.00
Biography
Christopher Rainham

Christopher Rainham's daily practice has its foundation in drawing and painting, trying in some way to respond to the natural world around him. He is engaged with the serendipitous interactions with plants and animals on his doorstep. 

Christopher Rainham's daily practice has its foundation in drawing and painting, trying in some way to respond to the natural world around him. He is engaged with the serendipitous interactions with plants and animals on his doorstep. The sorts of incidents that anyone can have, wherever they are. He feels especially lucky to live in the Calder Valley where these interactions are all around him in the woods and trees and green spaces.

He finds inspiration in these places, their archaeology, history or folk lore. How animals and plants are embedded in our language and how we make sense of the world around us. He feels that by being aware that we are part of this whole we can step back from old ideas that the world is here for our use and that we must live in symbiosis with everything around us.

Rainham works from a home studio just outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.

 

Selected Exhibitions

Will’s Art Warehouse London 

The Affordable Art Fair London, Singapore & New York 

Art at the Edge Styal Lodge 

Bell Fine Art Wells 

Stark Gallery Canterbury

The Corte-Real Gallery Portugal

Highgate Contemporary Art 

Greenstage Gallery Worcester 

Gorstella Gallery Chester 

Albatross and Arnold Manchester 

Obstructions Castlefield Gallery Manchester 

Oldham Art Gallery Oldham 

Moorland Skies The Coach House Littleborough

Castlefield New Art Spaces Wigan 

The Manchester Open Home Manchester

Through the Looking Glass World of Glass St Helens

Gorstella Gallery 

In The Making Salford Museum and Art Gallery Dec 2022- April 2023

Gladly Beyond Rogue Artist’s Studios CIC Manchester 

The Man Who Planted Trees Hebden Bridge Arts 

Ancient Grasslands Gibson Mill Hebden Bridge

Awards

North West Arts Board Photography and Print Scheme 1994

Artreach E.P.R. Warrington 1998

Publication fees Images 27 2003

Short listed for the John Moore’s painting prize 2010

Short listed for John Moore’s painting prize 2014

Short listed for the National open Art exhibition 2014

The King of the Cats Arts Council funding 2014

Bolder Artists Mentoring Scheme Castlefield Gallery and GMCA 2020

The Drawing Intensive (Fees) The Royal Drawing School London 2023

 

Publications 

Images 27 The Association of Illustrators 2003

BBC Worldwide Illustration for the Radio Times

Contact 24   2008

The King of the Cats exhibition catalogue 2016

 

In National Collections 

Erebus Bay

Heritage Division, Department of Culture and Heritage

Government of Nunavut, Iqualuit, Canada

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