Christopher Bramham

[3] They also exhibited together at the Browse and Darby Gallery in London in 2007, in a three-person show along with the painter Duncan Wood.

[5] Bramham lives and works in Cornwall and is represented by Marlborough Fine Art in London.

[8] His images are built up slowly, with layers of paint applied, according to the art critic Andrew Lambirth, almost in emulation of the speed at which a plant being depicted might grow.

[9] Yet, according to Jonathan Clark, this is not a result of the romanticisation of nature, rather it is that Bramham paints the things that are near by as subject matter is incidental to him.

[10] In this it is possible to see some connection with other painters associated with the School of London, as there is a comparison to be made between the coupling of the formalist interest in painting as a medium alongside a direct engagement with aspects of the real world in Bramham and artists such as Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach.