Christopher English
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Christopher English was born in 1950 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.
His statement on his creative style of writing and painting:

I show the symbolic images in my paintings as a complement to the imagery evoked in my
poems. Ideas for the symbolism in my art derive from my poetry. Content of artwork is allegorical,
full of metaphor, connotation and ambiguity. I start a painting with a combination of several
images from a poem.

Discovery and suggestion from my imagination emerge during the painting process and are a
supplement to the poetry. The result has the intrinsic value of both poem and painting. Indeed, I show
where the ideas in the paintings came from, hence this publication of my poems and paintings together.
The still life paintings and the life drawings are very much part of the development of my creativity,
therefore I also include them to give an overall insight to my work.

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Christopher English's Symbolist Paintings and Poetry
The Anchor
and Kite
Broken
Walls
The Fisherman
The Judge and
The Dragon
The Snail
The Fly
and The Blackbird
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