This original painting is in acrylic on panel and part of the Chris Gollon Estate. It is featured in the new documentary ‘CHRIS GOLLON: Life in Paint’ (2024), which has its World Premiere at the Barbican Centre on 29th October 2024, as part of Doc ’n Roll Film Festival. To view a trailer or buy tickets: https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/chris-gollon-life-in-paint/

London-born British artist Chris Gollon (1953 - 2017) was a critically-acclaimed name in European painting, with many solo museum shows and museum acquisitions, including the British Museum.

In 2016, Chris Gollon was experimenting with his own form of grisaille, a technique Breughel used in his last works, such as Death of the Virgin. Grisaille means using a very restricted palette, almost always black and white, sometimes with a touch of yellow or burn ochre.

Chris Gollon was a great colourist, and in this image perhaps of the morning after the night before, he chose to make his own grisaille, by using only black, white and burnt Sienna. In 2016, he made a short series of cover versions in grisaille of his own previous works, to experiment, very successfully with the technique. This painting is a grisaille version of his previous painting 'Morning', now in a private collection, and featured in Tamsin Pickeral's 2010 monograph 'Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art' (available in our gallery online shop).