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Chris Hipkiss lives in rural France. He began to draw in his distinctive style in 1990 while riding on a tourist boat along the Seine in Paris. He explains: 'The work I produce now dates back to a particular time, when I gave up concentrating on the finished product and, instead allowed my thoughts to wander until a finished picture was created. 'Most of Hipkiss' intricate pencil drawings depict imaginary landscapes and alien cityscapes that reveal disturbing details when examined closely. The pictures take a long time to produce; indeed his largest work took over two years to finish. Hipkiss says that he is inspired: 'to find ways of drawing things in repetition that I would like to draw, but sometimes can't find the way of doing it'.

Chris Hipkiss undated Courtesy of Tate Archive Photo credit: Fiona Freund view larger image		Letter from Chris Hipkiss to Monika Kinley 1998 Courtesy of Tate Archive view larger image
Chris Hipkiss 1998 Courtesy of the artist and Tate Archive Photo credit: Louise Sheridan view larger image		London 1993 The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Collection Pencil on paper view larger image

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