Humanity faces some very serious issues. Essentially my art attempts to engage with the truth about these.

" OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT  THINGS THAT MATTER"   Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"     Edgar Degas 

"Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable"   Banksy

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-"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war against brutality & darkness"  Pablo Picasso

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- "Insuring a vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation...the artist must also sail against the wind of his time, not a popular role"  President John F Kennedy.

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- "Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened"  Winston Churchill.

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" To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men "  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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" For evil to flourish, it takes good men & women to do nothing (2012)  - Collage/ drawing 23cms x 20cms 

Global Warming & Disease - " Just what happened to us on Mars"  Acrylic paint on canvas  (April 2020)- 122 cms x 122 cms 

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 

ride into the 21st century. (2011)  Acrylic paint on canvas 120cms x 120cms .

IAll art works are  copyright © Chris Holden