Hello! I'm Challoner Spokes. I'm an experienced painter who specialises in creative education and training for adult learners.

With well over a decade of experience of delivering training, education and workshops to students of various ages and backgrounds, my style of instruction is energetic, fun and interactive.
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My paintings are full of big colour, shape and bold contrasts. The paintings often depict themes of nature, of relationships and the cultivation of memory.
A lot of my paintings are done in oil paint or acrylic. I love the feel of paint. It’s buttery and smooth and the act of putting the paint on canvas is delicious! I often make my own canvas boards so that I can feel completely involved in whole process.
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My work is representational but it is not bound by reality. I’m interested in shape, line and colour. For me, light is important but mainly to show up contrasts in colour. I enjoy the line that interrupts colours to define shape and objects. Colour theory and the Expressionist art movement really excite me. I like creating work which is more than reality; I like to emphasise what is important about the subject and, for me, that means Lines and Colour.