Chris Parks Art

FLUID PERSPECTIVES


Chris Parks Art

Chris has developed a totally unique approach which allows him to capture movement and light in new and surprising ways. Using mixed media within a liquid medium, he creates microscopic, moving fluid paintings which continually change and develop until the moment is right, at which point he captures them. In order to be able to control the liquid, he works on a very small scale. At the moment of capture, the pieces are barely visible to the naked eye, measuring less than half an inch, even for some of the largest pieces.

All the paintings are naturally occurring events that Chris creates in his studio using organic ingredients. Nothing is digitally enhanced and painstaking effort goes into ensuring the finished piece faithfully represents the colours that are visible at the time of capturing the painting or film. Organic particles are used to add a natural randomness to the flow and feel of the images and the pigments are chosen both for their look and for how they behave. The paintings only exist for a short time before they evolve into something different and the moment is gone.

Fluid Paintings
Limited Editions

Fluid Paintings
One Offs

Fluid Films
Features, Commercials and short films

About Us

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Having studied Engineering at Imperial College, London and then Design at the Royal College of Art, all of Chris's professional life has been concerned with film and photography. The fluid paintings that he creates are both inspired by, and draw on the movements and dynamics that he has discovered whilst filming some of the smallest organisms that inhabit the oceans. In turn the fluid paintings have attracted the attention of some of Hollywood’s biggest directors who have commissioned Chris to contribute to films such as ‘The Fountain’ and ‘The Tree of Life’. Through a combination of his feature film work and his Stereoscopic 3D photography, Chris has found himself supervising the 3D on a number of features, including Tom Cruise’s ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ and the film recognised as the best 3D film of all time, ‘Gravity’.

Chris works with his father, Peter, and a small team of people who have been involved in many of the projects over the years. The fluids work has evolved out of Peter and Chris’s natural history and plankton filming and indeed, the biggest influence on Chris’s work comes from the natural world and his work as a natural history cameraman. Chris has been involved in filming some of this planet’s most alien looking creatures, particularly those from the oceans. It is the way these creatures move, and the play of light and sound in their world, that is a recurring theme in much of Chris’s work.

Peter is a renowned cinematographer having won the Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar for his work, including the development of some of the optics now used by Chris for his fluids work.

Chris's team includes Directors of Photography Chris Campkin, Rob Hollingworth and Matt Smith who work with Chris across both the fluids work and Chris's Vision3 3D and VR work.


Visit Vision3 for more on Chris’s 3D work.

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Contact Us

Chris Parks Art
2 Gower Street
London
WC1E 6DP
England

+44 (0)7740 868211
+44 (0)20 7043 4637
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Chris Parks Art
2 Gower Street
London
WC1E 6DP
England

M: +44 (0)7740 868211
T: +44 (0)20 7043 4637

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© 2016 by Chris Parks Art Ltd

News
January 2017 - Chris creates 'memory' for Justin Kurzel's Assassins Creed.
October 2016 - Terrence Malick's 'Voyage of Time' is released in IMAX with imagery by Chris and Peter Parks.
September 2016 - Chris collaborates with Henry Hobson on iPhone 7 film for Apple.
April 2016 - Daniel Wolfe again partners with Chris for his Hennessy commercial “A New Further”.
August 2015 - Chris develops new techniques for Johnny Green’s Photon - a commercial for NRG.
May 2015 - Chris and team complete filming for special effects sequence on upcoming feature ‘Gods of Egypt’ starring Gerard Butler and Geoffrey Rush.
14th August - 21st September 2014 - Chris Parks exhibiting at the Summer Exhibition at Castle Fine Art in Mayfair, London. More details
here.
March 2015 - Daniel Wolfe’s Iron Sky music video for Paolo Nutini featuring segments by Chris, wins Jury prize at SXSW and four awards at the D&AD’s awards.
June 2014 - Chris Completes shoot for the New Paolo Nutini music video ‘Iron Sky’, directed by Daniel Wolfe. See the full video
here.
November 2013 - Chris receives 3D awards for his work on Gravity at the International 3D society awards in Hollywood.