A brief note 

CHRIS CAPPER was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1951. After his family moved to Perth, Chris studied art from 1970 to 1972, at what is now Curtin University, and followed this up with a Post Graduate Diploma at the Victorian College of the Arts, part of the University of Melbourne. He had his first show with us in 1979, and exhibited regularly for the next fifteen years, becoming very well-known for his exquisite, small and colourful still lives, resplendent with beautiful imaginings of abstract flower forms, often set in deep space, gained from deep reflection. Sometime in the ‘Eighties he moved to New South Wales, living and working in a number of different locations. During that time, he had frequent shows at the Rex Irwin Gallery, one of Sydney’s leading commercial galleries, as well as in Goulburn and Newcastle. Last I heard, he was living in Newcastle.

Chris’s paintings have always been among my favourites. I own five: I wish I had a hundred…