Kristian Purcell

I'm a painter and work in a museum.
This is the place for things that have caught my eye, and things I've painted or drawn.
After the raft of the Medusa, 2011. Pencil on paper. Private collection.

After the raft of the Medusa, 2011. Pencil on paper. Private collection.

Painted as part of the first Bedford Creative Arts mini-commission, the painting depicts me after waking up from facial surgery that followed an unprovoked attack in the street by two youths with a knuckleduster in 2009.

Painted as part of the first Bedford Creative Arts mini-commission, the painting depicts me after waking up from facial surgery that followed an unprovoked attack in the street by two youths with a knuckleduster in 2009.

Kristian Purcell - ‘He writes in his room, she reads him in her room’ (Juhana Vähänen), 2009. Oil on canvas, 60x70cm.

Kristian Purcell - ‘He writes in his room, she reads him in her room’ (Juhana Vähänen), 2009. Oil on canvas, 60x70cm.

I don’t usually just repost things, but this Tillmans image relates somehow to my work. I now need to go away and think how that might be.
Forgotten Yesterdays:a A Pulse Within the System by Wolfgang Tillmans.

I don’t usually just repost things, but this Tillmans image relates somehow to my work. I now need to go away and think how that might be.

Forgotten Yesterdays:a A Pulse Within the System by Wolfgang Tillmans.

(via thisticklesleah)

The paintings were inspired by a short stretch of coastline in South Devon, between Blackpool Sands and Torcross. Chris usually works on a larger scale but has produced these smaller more intimate pieces specifically for Pensieri.Chris has had numerous solo shows and has been exhibiting and producing work for private commissions for a number of years. She was head of art at Sharnbrook Upper School from 1992 – 2010 

The paintings were inspired by a short stretch of coastline in South Devon, between Blackpool Sands and Torcross. Chris usually works on a larger scale but has produced these smaller more intimate pieces specifically for Pensieri.


Chris has had numerous solo shows and has been exhibiting and producing work for private commissions for a number of years. She was head of art at Sharnbrook Upper School from 1992 – 2010 

DFACE - Leah Kardos, from Bigo and Twigetti. Painting by me, ‘Unelma (Study for a dream).

Painting by Chris Lock ‘Ploughed Field in the Rain’. An exhibition of her work is opening at Pensieri, Castle Lane bedford on November 17th, 2011.

Painting by Chris Lock ‘Ploughed Field in the Rain’. An exhibition of her work is opening at Pensieri, Castle Lane bedford on November 17th, 2011.

Drunken Silenus (after Rubens), 2009.

Drunken Silenus (after Rubens), 2009.

An Interior View, 2011. Ink, gouache, and watercolour on paper

An Interior View, 2011. Ink, gouache, and watercolour on paper

Stokes, 2007. Pen and ink on paper. from my Watching the Tests series.

Stokes, 2007. Pen and ink on paper. from my Watching the Tests series.

Unelma (study for a dream), 2009. A painting of mine that appeared this week on the cover of Leah Kardos’ Feather Hammer album. Which is a very good piece of music indeed. 

Unelma (study for a dream), 2009. A painting of mine that appeared this week on the cover of Leah Kardos’ Feather Hammer album. Which is a very good piece of music indeed. 

I love this work from Galerie De Expeditie by Lara Viana:
Untitled 2011, oil on panel, 40x30cm

I love this work from Galerie De Expeditie by Lara Viana:

Untitled 2011, oil on panel, 40x30cm

After ‘Girl in a Cemetery, Delacroix’, by me a for an exhibition of drawings. Sold.

After ‘Girl in a Cemetery, Delacroix’, by me a for an exhibition of drawings. Sold.

Ari’s Song from Nico’s Marble Index album, 1969.