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# Chris Down

Artist and Illustrator

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://chrisdown.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [news](https://chrisdown.co.uk/news/)
- [Shadows of the Stones: A Powerful Art Exhibition](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2025/05/14/shadows-of-the-stones-a-powerful-art-exhibition/) - An inspirational art exhibition featuring the works of Chris down, Laura Daligan, Esther Winkles and Naomi Cornock in a venue only 4 miles from Stonehenge.
- [Celtic T-Shirts: Now Taking a Sustainable  Direction](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2025/05/15/celtic-t-shirts-now-taking-a-sustainable-direction/) - My new on-line shop, featuring both 100% organic cotton Celtic T-shirts along with fine-art and canvas framed prints is now open.
- [Teepublic T-Shirts: My new print on demand store](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2023/02/17/teepublic-t-shirts-my-new-print-on-demand-store/) - Following on from my Redbubble print on demand store, I have now added their sister company Teepublic to widen the print on demand options for my art.
- [Between the Worlds:  Debut EP by Daligan Released](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2018/08/08/ep-released/) - On 21st June 2018 the debut EP from Daligan was released. This is a collaboration between myself and fellow artist Laura Daligan an available on Bandcamp.
- [Firesword: An unforgettable fire performance](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2019/09/05/firesword/) - A dynamic photograph I took of my friend Laura Daligan during her wonderful fire performance at the 2019 3 Wishes Festival in Cornwall.
- [Esther with her Triba Mythica leather costume](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2019/09/05/esther/) - A recent portrait of my friend Esther Winkles, who with her husband Martin have a company Triba Mythica. Together they make the costume she is wearing.
- [Metalmorphosis: A vivid Steampunk unicorn comes to life](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2019/09/05/metalmorphosis/) - A slight diversion for me as I mostly paint figurative portraits. So to do a steampunk unicorn made a novel change. Maybe there will be more of that to come.
- [My new Redbubble Shop is now open](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2020/09/11/new-redbubble-shop/) - I have opened a new Redbubble shop which allows print on demand and where a wide variety of my artwork can be found on numerous products.
- [The Sunset Series Limited Edition Prints of Hares](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2022/08/31/the-sunset-series-of-limited-edition-prints/) - Four pen and ink Limited Edition prints of hares with a theme of sunsets inspired by time up at Stonehenge and referenced from photographs I've taken there.
- [New Web Site](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2018/08/07/new-web-site/) - It has been a long time coming, but I finally have a completely a new web site. I created my original web site some 20 odd years ago and that required a lot of learning HTML and writing code. A fairly onerous task. Over the years the site grew as more images were added but
- [EMAC 2018](https://chrisdown.co.uk/2018/08/08/emac-2018/) - The weekend of 29th and 30th September 2018 sees the 6th Exhibition of Mythic Arts and Crafts in The Assembly Rooms. Glastonbury. There will be six artists attending this year, myself, Melanie Brear, Laura Daligan, Alexandra Dawe, Tamara Newman and Katrina Sesum. I have been involved in putting on the event from the beginning and

## Pages

- [Chris Down: Fantastic Art, Music, Motorbikes and Stonehenge](https://chrisdown.co.uk/) - Web Site of the artist and illustrator Chris Down, who specialises in Celtic and Fantasy art, with over a 1,000 images published in more than sixty books.
- [Celtic Art: Creating a World of The Endless Knot](https://chrisdown.co.uk/celtic-art/) - For many years my main focus was creating Celtic art. My first set of cards to be published and my first book commission were both of Celtic Art.
- [](https://chrisdown.co.uk/introducing-chris-down/) - Introduction to the web site of artist and illustrator Chris Down, who specialises in both Celtic and digital art and been published in more than sixty books.
- [Portrait Paintings: It's not just about People](https://chrisdown.co.uk/portrait-paintings/) - Recently I found myself producing portrait paintings in a direction which strayed from Fantasy Art. It started around the time I painted my precious cat Rosie.
- [Books: My Journey into the World of Print](https://chrisdown.co.uk/books/) - For over 25 years my art has featured in numerous books, having been commissioned by a number of publishing houses as a freelance illustrator.
- [An Unexpected Life in Books](https://chrisdown.co.uk/unexpected-life/) - An unexpected life in the world of books. Little did I know when I started out working on my first book commission that how many books would feature my art.
- [Fantasy Art: Inspirational Paintings which are drawn from Life](https://chrisdown.co.uk/fantasy-art-gallery/) - Many of the people who have posed for my fantasy art paintings, I originally met at events and festivals. I consider these paintings to be life studies.
- [Showcasing my Art, Powerful Paintings and Detailed Pencils](https://chrisdown.co.uk/art-galleries/) - I have produced art in a variety of media and styles. Many of my paintings are here in the galleries, along with drawings and photographs.
- [Book Illustrations: Bringing Books to Life with Beautiful Art](https://chrisdown.co.uk/book-illustrations/) - A small selection of the many and varied book illustrations I have produced and which have been featured in over sixty books since my first commission in 1994.
- [Pens and Pencils: The Old School Way of Working](https://chrisdown.co.uk/pens-and-pencils/) - Some personal drawings. Working with pens and pencils allow me to go places creatively which the book illustrations did not usually take me to.
- [Fantasy Paintings Close-ups: It's in the Detail](https://chrisdown.co.uk/fantasy-paintings-close-ups/) - Close-up details of some of the fantasy paintings found in the main paintings gallery of my web site. These show the amount of work which goes into them.
- [Celtic Art T-shirts: Made from High Quality Organic Cotton](https://chrisdown.co.uk/celtic-art-t-shirts/) - These 100% organic cotton Celtic Art T-shirts printed on demand in a wind and solar powered factory make a great sustainable clothing choice.
- [The Crafter's Design Library Series: Inspirational Books for Creativity](https://chrisdown.co.uk/the-crafters-design-library/) - The two Crafter's Design Library books are for craft workers to bring designs into their home projects for which I produced a massive seven hundred images.
- [Fallen Angel: Anatomy of a Successful Painting](https://chrisdown.co.uk/fallen-angel-2/) - Fallen Angel has been one of my most successful paintings. Originally painted in 2008, it has resonated with a wide number of people.
- [Celtic Dreams: An Illustrated Anthology of Irish Poetry](https://chrisdown.co.uk/celtic-dreams/) - An ambitious early project, where I edited and designed this anthology of Irish poetry, which feature the likes of Yeats and Heaney alongside my illustrations.
- [The Celtic Tarot: An Exciting Commission of a Lifetime](https://chrisdown.co.uk/the-celtic-tarot/) - The Celtic Tarot was the culmination of near three years work and without doubt the most ambitious project I have worked on and possibly ever will.
- [The Best-Selling Real Witches Series of Books](https://chrisdown.co.uk/real-witches-series/) - The longest series of books which I illustrated are the Real Witches series by author Kate West and published by the Harper Collins imprint Thorsons.
- [Photography: Life in Front of the Lens](https://chrisdown.co.uk/photography/) - Alongside reference photos for paintings, I like to take photos for their own sake. Photography is very much part of my creative process.
- [The Celtic Tarot: A Labour of Love](https://chrisdown.co.uk/celtic-tarot/) - A selection of the seventy eight paintings I produced over a three year period for the Celtic Tarot published by Llewellyn Worldwide.
- [List of Book Publications which Feature my Art](https://chrisdown.co.uk/book-list/) - A list of the sixty four English language book publications which have featured my art, comprising more than a thousand images.
- [Privacy Policy](https://chrisdown.co.uk/privacy-policy/) - Who I am I am an individual self-employed artist. This site is my personal portfolio site. As such, it is not a business site in that it does not collect or use personal details of those visiting it. The shop link takes you to a separate business site which is covered by its own privacy
- [Contact](https://chrisdown.co.uk/contact-form/) - If you would like to get in touch with me please use this contact form.
- [Sample Page](https://chrisdown.co.uk/sample-page/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger

## Projects

- [Electronic Music: The Power of the Beat](https://chrisdown.co.uk/portfolio/music/) - I have found that working on electronic music projects exerts the same creative muscles as that of art. Creativity will out whatever the medium.
- [Art: A Wonderful World of Possibilities](https://chrisdown.co.uk/portfolio/art/) - From spray painting Celtic art onto motorbikes, through to digital figurative portraiture via pen and ink illustrations, my art could be considered eclectic.
- [Photography: Life through a lens](https://chrisdown.co.uk/portfolio/photography/) - Photography has become an intrinsic part of the way I work as an illustrator and artist. Much of the reference material I use now comes from my own photographs.

## Categories

- [Music](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/music/)
- [Art](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/art/)
- [Illustration](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/illustration/)
- [General](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/general/)
- [Photography](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/photography/)
- [People](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/people/)
- [Paintings](https://chrisdown.co.uk/category/paintings/)

## Tags

- [Redbubble](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/redbubble/)
- [Rebubble Artists](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/rebubble-artists/)
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- [Eron](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/eron/)
- [Wizard](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/wizard/)
- [Hare](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/hare/)
- [Pen and Ink](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/pen-and-ink/)
- [Stonehenge](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/stonehenge/)
- [Sunset](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/sunset/)
- [Fine art Prints](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/fine-art-prints/)
- [Celtic](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/celtic/)
- [T-Shirts](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/t-shirts/)
- [Exhibition](https://chrisdown.co.uk/tag/exhibition/)

## Project Types

- [People](https://chrisdown.co.uk/project-type/people/)
- [Places](https://chrisdown.co.uk/project-type/places/)
- [Paintings](https://chrisdown.co.uk/project-type/paintings/)
- [Illustration](https://chrisdown.co.uk/project-type/illustration/)
- [Sound](https://chrisdown.co.uk/project-type/sound/)
- [Vision](https://chrisdown.co.uk/project-type/vision/)