Chris Charteris is an artist whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred inspiration is derived from the outdoors. He creates sculptures that evoke sky, air, water, sea and the earth. Charteris's art also draws on the ever present human presence and interactions with the land. "I want my work to be able to reflect the land which has become synonymous with how I live and who I am," says Chris?. ?.. Some of Charteris's sculptures are miraculous natural installations--stone tributes that stand solid and tease our human resolve and understanding of the environments we recognise and are drawn to. Others are intimate, and often tactile, imparting that rare quality that they have been created just for you. Rather than telling you ?what' Charteris has sculptured them into, they let you listen. Like a Vemeer painting they can impart their meaning to a thousand ?secret viewers'?. .... "Since my work relies strongly on my intuition, I sometimes do the unexpected. I work from my subconscious," says Chris. "I search for interesting materials and think, hear or see something interesting which I can apply to that inherent form and beautify of those materials. Then I incorporate this into my art. I like to explore a wide variety of possibilities with materials but never to transform them into something unrecognisable or completely devoid of their inherent qualities and form??..