Chris Bradbury is an artist from Virginia’s New River Valley, where he is endlessly inspired by Appalachia and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains. Chris uses watercolor, gouache, ink, pastel, and oil to paint illustrations, portraits, and landscapes in bold, almost primary colors with expressive brushwork to create realism through fantasy. But it is with his landscapes that Chris explores themes like the relationships between the natural and the unnatural world, the real and the unreal, and the pliability of the familiar. Chris lives in Radford, Virginia with his wife and children.