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 should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable" Banksy
-"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war against brutality & darkness" Pablo Picasso
- "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.
- "Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened" Winston Churchill.
" To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men " Ella Wheeler Wilcox
IAll art works are copyright © Chris Holden
" For evil to flourish, it takes good men & women to do nothing Collage / drawing 23cms x 20cms ( 2012)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
ride into the 21st century. Acrylic paint on canvas 120cms x 120cms
Below - Chris Holden (kneeling, centre left) in 1960 on one of the famous annual 4 day Easter Aldermaston Marches against nuclear weapons. From the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Berkshire to London. - c. 52 miles / 83 kms. Over 40% of the marchers were under 21.
(Google - Aldermaston Marches)
