About the Piece

ÔRedhead in a red bedÕ (2015) is another visual testament to ChristianÕs ability to make fabric (and light's play upon it) the very subject of his painting. In this work, Fanny, the artistÕs wife, is in the smallest shape she can take, a human seedling form, her face to the bed, so we instead are forced to take in the varying textures of the bedÕs landscape beyond, before and upon her all the way through to the sharp artificial contrast of the black and white stockings.