Chris Dunn

 

Chris Dunn graduated from Bath University in 2008. In 2011 he entered the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and the Bath Art Prize, he won both and that acted as a catalyst and 'permission to draw from his imagination as a career. 

In 2013 he was commissioned by Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris to paint a series of watercolours based on The Wind in the Willows.

Thus began my love affair with all things Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. Curiously I chose not to illustrate scenes from Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece (I was over cautious when it came to copyright), rather I explored the world on the periphery of the riverbank sometimes hinted at by Grahame. It was a rich seam to mine illustrating an imaginary (alas) world of woodland animals interacting at home, in the trees, city, sea coast, school and even in the air. Chris Dunn

Following a successful exhibited in Paris mid 2016  Galerie DM commissioned Chris to illustrate the Wind in the Willows as a complete book and he became a full-time artist specialising in traditional children’s book watercolour illustration.