les gateaux…

Chris Edwick - gateau with strawberries, dark coffee cream and lemon and lime icing...

gateau with strawberries, dark coffee cream and lemon and lime icing…
oil on canvas 90 x 130 cm

making a cake is an act of love...

                            de Kooning once said that “flesh is the reason oil paint was invented” but its just as good at evoking custard, cream, strawberry, blueberry, caramel, cinnamon, lemon, lime… I could go on…

Chris Edwick - gateaux, surrounded with strawberry jam everywhere and with a blueberry cream filling...

gateaux, surrounded with strawberry jam everywhere and with a blueberry cream filling…
oil on canvas 90 x 130 cm

I believe spirituality resides in the rich sensuality of existence…

                                     not in negation, abstinence or denial, not in the meagre, or the tenuous but in diving headlong into the very deep-end of the rich tapestry of life, awakening our awareness to its giddy intoxicating intensity of abundance…for me that’s where real spiritual experience lies…in the ecstatic…

Chris edwick - birthday gateaux, with lavender cream icing, sugar pink candles…

birthday gateaux, with lavender cream icing, sugar pink candles…
oil on canvas 90 x 130 cm

eat cake, 
paint cake, 
love life…

Chris Edwick - gateau with an ice cream lemon and lime topping over a bed of strawberries and coffee cream...

gateau with an ice cream lemon and lime topping over a bed of strawberries and coffee cream..
oil on canvas 90 x 130 cm

cake…

is a wonderful invention of mankind; a perfect symbol of joyful celebration in sensuality… at life’s special moments when we celebrate the marriage of two people or the anniversary of our birth we make a cake…

when there is cake there is hope…

Chris Edwick - gateaux with dark chocolate, lavender icing, spiced orange and smatterings of coffee cream…

gateaux with dark chocolate, lavender icing, spiced orange and smatterings of coffee cream…

oil on canvas  70 x 113 cm

what do we hold onto in life, remember and cherish?

hopefully those moments of joy, wonder and celebration….and the feeling that life is sensational, a journey of vivid experiences that are beautiful and richly sensual…that’s the subject of my paintings…