Chris attended Chelsea School of Art and Falmouth School of Art before establishing himself in Portscatho, based in the heart of the Roseland Peninsula on the South Cornish Coast. Chris's work has been widely exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. He now plays an integral role in the promotion of Cornish Art having founded the highly successful Portscatho Society of Arts in 1984.

Chris's work can be seen at Truro Museum and Art Gallery as well as at Falmouth Art Gallery.

Paintings

Chris opened his gallery in Portscatho in 1985 and moved to his larger New Gallery premises in 1997 where studios are available to view as well as the main showroom. The gallery is an artist-run space specialising in the work of established West Country artists - most of whom also exhibit in London. At the New Gallery there is often the opportunity to meet the artists as well as to buy work from them. Amongst regular exhibitors at the gallery are: Chris Insoll, Lynn Golden, Eric Ward, Trevor Felcey, Endel White, Denis Abraham, Grace Gardner, Andrea Insoll, Paul Clarke, Yvonne Fuller and Marrianne Golden.

The New Gallery
Portscatho
Cornwall
TR2 5HW
01872 580445

Publications by or including Chris Insoll:

  Portscatho - A portrait of a Cornish Art Colony by Chris Insoll (Halsgrove October 2006)
  Artists in Britain since 1945 by David Buckman : Art Dictionaries Ltd (enlarged edn 2006)
  Paintings about Painting - Chris Insoll by Sarah Drury pub 2001
  Who's Who in Art 32nd Edn ISBN 0904722414 Hilmarton Manor Press 2006
  Cornwall Today March 2007
  Inside Cornwall March 2007
  Art Colony in Transition by Peter Davies ISBN 9780948385-45-6, St Ives Printing and Publishing Co, 2007
  Biography and illustration included in St Ives 1975-2005
  Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Oil Paintings in Public Ownership, ISBN 1-904931-30-8, The Public Catalogue Foundation 2007

Updated December 2007