Born and brought up in industrial South Wales.

He studied Textiles at Camberwell School of Art and Fashion at St Martins Charing Cross Road, where he was inspired by the broad cultural and artistic influences from lecturers such as Frank Bowling, Elisabeth Suitor and Mike Leigh.

Christopher’s first job, after gaining a Distinction for his MA in Fashion & Textiles, was with British couturier Murray Arbeid in New Bond Street. Here he learned the craft of draping, pattern cutting and the concept of producing decorative techniques in the atelier, where within the construction the technique is also the decoration, this concept continues to be the driving force for Christopher whatever the medium.  Clients included Princess Diana, Janet Baker and Regine amongst others.

Christopher lectured in fashion at various art schools and colleges that are now universities. This culminated in his teaching on the MA Fashion course at St Martins alongside the legendary Professor Louise Wilson.

While he was teaching Christopher was creating hand-tufted carpets in Portugal which were exhibited at Oscar Woollens and Robin Guild interior design stores in London. These were featured in the Observer and House And Gardens magazines. Christopher was chosen to have one of these rugs in an exhibition called ‘For The Floor’ which toured museums in the USA for 2 years.

Christopher was a founder of The Collection Design Studio a textile studio that was innovative in every aspect of fashion and textile design-print, weave, knit, embroidery and constructed fashion techniques. These were cut first into garment shapes and then into 3D garments of every type. These original copyright designs were sold world wide to every level of the fashion market from international high street brands to Fashion Houses at the other end of the spectrum. Clients such as Prada, Valentino, Armani in Italy Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren in New York. Whole collections evolved from these designs.

With the extensive travelling Christopher had the opportunity to immerse himself in culture from museums all around the world especially New York 5 times per year. This gave the clients inspiration for current and future collaborations.

After 40 years of a very successful career in fashion and textiles Christopher felt the desire to pursue different creative outlets had been growing…..

Starting with embossing paper pushing it to its breaking point and exposing colour at the back which is reflecting. Reflection has now evolved into one of the most important elements of Christopher’s work.

Using the zero waste mentality of a pattern cutter Christopher produced Laser Cut pieces in plywood and steel making several works out of one piece of the material. These are placed in wall boxes that are 2.5 dimensional with a coloured reflection on the back of each layer.

Christopher was always attracted to ceramics as a medium and has produced expressive pieces in stoneware (with textural coloured glazes) and in white porcelain. Sometimes adding resin and glass to give even greater dimension.

In 2020 Christopher was offered the opportunity to take up a 3 month residency at the prestigious EKWC, European Ceramic Centre in Holland with its amazing tutors and facilities where anything was possible. Anish Kapoor Anthony Gormley and Tony Cragg were past attendees. This proved to be a super productive period for him in deepest lockdown. Making everything from small black stoneware and platinum lustre tiles to huge sculptural pieces some incorporating twisted copper wire.

Christopher then decided to cast acrylic paintings in resin and mount these into boxes with mirror inside to see the reaction of the two reflective surfaces. This inspired him to place the ceramics into textured mirrored glass boxes pushing the reflective element to the limit.

He made textured expressive glass pieces mounted in reflective boxes where the box became as important as the piece itself. In some instances the box became the piece.

Next he created multi media plates and platters in stoneware and glass with reflective backs floating on the wall by means of metal or wooden mounts.

Some glass some stoneware plates some cast some hand made deliberately broken this emphasized by the traditional cobalt blue and white spot decoration. For wall or table…not for use.