As an artist, Chris displays a remarkable ability to capture tiny details and subtle interplays of light and shadow to form the cornerstone of his paintings. After studying painting at Manchester Metropolitan University, the artist moved to London and hosted a solo exhibition at Soho’s Carnaby Street. Greatly inspired by cinema and music, Acheson draws on these mediums to fuel his work and to help him determine where to begin. For example, the title of a favourite song may spur him to find a location to fit his artistic vision of what it means, or the visual treatment of a painting may be reminiscent of a painted film still in either black and white or colour. Acheson also uses corporate logos in his compositions whenever possible as a way to represent the icons of pop culture and to provide a sense of what time period the painting is intended to represent. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s famed silk screens and fascinated by street culture, the artist’s work is both vivid and jovial. Early on, Acheson was also quite influenced by the collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the art galleries of Manchester, along with the exquisite attention to detail and sense of narrative invoked by the work of Millais, Waterhouse and Hughes. Local artists Vallette and Lowry have also helped influence his style, which features a variety of different themes all involving pop culture, the street, music and cinema.