Original acrylic painting on canvas by local artist Chris Bruce

Title: Pool Scene with Volcano 

Year Made: 2025

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Dimensions: 81 x 61cm

About The Painting 

‘Pool Scene’ is a visual metaphor, one of a series of paintings where the actions taking place within the narrative frame may be seen to allude to the historicity of the present moment. The figures are imported from a preceding body of small painted sketches; some owe their origins to film sources (notably ‘A Bigger Splash’). The painting’s concern - evidenced by the volcano that overlooks the scene - is the latency of destructive forces attaching to the idealised forms that compose our present.

About The Artist

Chris Bruce lives and works in Cornwall. He has a BA in Fine Art from Cheltenham Art College (2002), and an MA in Contemporary Visual Art from Falmouth University (2008). He would classify himself as a narrative artist, concerned with various forms of story-telling and the populist tropes of the contemporary political conversation. His work has appeared in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Exhibition (20 & 21), the Wells Art Contemporary (22 & 25), the Jackson’s Art Prize (Acrylic Prize 24) and the John Ruskin Prize (25). In addition to his painting & drawing practice, he posts political cartoons on Instagram and in online news publications (@bruce_works15). 

With his practice spanning painting, drawing, and political cartooning, his work is rooted in an exploration of pareidolia - the human tendency to find patterns and stories within chaos. In his paintings, figures and subjects emerge gradually through layers of mark-making, the composition evolving iteratively until a story reveals itself.

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