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Original Paintings by Chris may
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A corner shop at dusk, glowing against the cold cobbles of a working-class street. A man pedals home from his shift, while a mother and child cross paths, wrapped in winter's hush.
A tribute to the everyday beauty of 1950s-60s Britain, seen through familiar streets and quiet moments.
Acrylic on canvas panel
Dimensions: 12 x 8.5 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £260 (excl. Shipping)
He went That Way, Officer (2025)
A street officer takes notes as a concerned mother and daughter point down a cobbled alleyway. Children play football in the distance, beneath washing lines and red-brick terraces.
The humour of the scene gently blends with the social realism of post-war Britain—capturing a moment both timeless and theatrical, drawn from memory and affection.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas hardboard panel
Dimensions: 15.75 x 11.8 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £650 (excl. shipping)
Legends in Bricks (2025)
A nostalgic moment captured on a street corner where a young boy stands transfixed by a poster of the Great Train Robbery, not in admiration of the crime, but sparked by the larger-than-life presence of stories and legends that fuel a child’s imagination. A nod to the way urban spaces and news once stirred wonder and curiosity.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas hardboard panel
Dimensions: 15.7 x 11.8 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £650 (excl. shipping)
Where the Streetlights Lead You (2025)
A nostalgic street scene capturing the golden glow of the local fish and chip shop, where families gather, children press against the glass, and the evening rain glistens under the lamplight.
A memory of working-class Britain’s warmth, tradition, and everyday magic.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas hardboard panel
Dimensions: 15.75 x 11.8 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £650 (excl. shipping)
Note:
All artworks are original hand-painted pieces on canvas panel.
Each is sold unframed, carefully packaged by the artist including a signed insert and certificate of authenticity. Ready for you to frame and display.
Steel Against Sunset (2025)
.Industrial silhouettes rise against a warm sunset as cranes and cargo dominate the skyline. The painting captures the raw energy of a working dock at day’s end, when labour and golden light mingle. A tribute to Britain’s industrial past—powerful, atmospheric, and quietly cinematic.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas hardboard panel
Dimensions: 16 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £550 (excl. shipping)
Walking Home in the Snow (2025)
An elderly man and his grandson walk home through the snow-covered streets of a northern town. Across the road, a familiar street character strolls by with his little dog, briefly catching the boy's gaze. The quiet backdrop of chimneys, garden sheds, and crisp white snow captures a nostalgic winter moment, blending family warmth, stillness, and shared memory.
Medium: Watercolour on textured paper, mounted on hardboard panel
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £250 (excl. shipping)
Fog in London (2023)
A thick London fog blankets Westminster, blurring lines, edges, and time. Beneath a golden lamplight, shadowy figures emerge from the haze, silent and purposeful. The scene evokes mystery, history, and quiet resolve, capturing the haunting stillness of the capital in a moment both real and imagined.
Medium: Oil on canvas hardboard panel
Dimensions: 16 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2023
Availability: Available
Price: £320 (excl. shipping)
The Long Walk Home (2025)
Two co-workers, joined by a loyal dog, walk home after a long shift. As they leave the industrial world behind, distant rows of homes promise warmth, rest, and quiet routine. The weight of the day and the pull of home settle side by side in this gently lit moment of quite companionship and fatigue.
Medium: Watercolour on textured paper mounted to hardboard
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £250 (excl. shipping)
Teamwork in Steel (2025)
A powerful scene from the shipyards, where dozens of men in yellow safety helmets work in harmony beneath towering cranes beside a colossal ship under construction. At the centre, a suspended steel beam is lowered into place, as figures guide it along the rails. The grit and unity of industrial labour is captured through strong lines and atmospheric light.
Medium: Acrylic on canavas panel
Dimensions: 16 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £550 (excl. shipping)
A Trip Down Memory Lane (2025)
A man stands immersed in a vintage bookshop, browsing the shelves on a quiet street.
Potted plants and scattered books outside add warmth and charm, capturing the timeless joy of discovery in a secondhand world.
This painting pays tribute to forgotten places and gentle routines, the kind that leave a lasting mark on memory.
Medium: Oil on canvas panel
Dimensions: 16 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2024
Availability: Available
Price: £550 (excl. shipping)
Morning Shift in Winter (2025)
The morning awakens in cold blue as workers and their dog make their way toward the glowing windows of the factory. The crunch of frost underfoot echoes the day’s first breath.
Chimneys rise into the sky, billowing with smoke, while rows of sheds and rooftops lie blanketed in snow. A quietly cinematic image of industry, routine, and dignity of early labour.
Medium: Watercolour on textured paper
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £250 (excl. shipping)
Chimneys and Footprints (2025)
Snowy rooftops and busy streets wind through a Northern town alive with families, workers, and children at play. A glowing sky warms the scene as footprints weave through the snow, each one echoing the rhythm of everyday life.
A quiet tribute to community spirit and the timeless beauty of winter days.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel
Dimensions: 18 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £550 (excl. shipping)
Woolworths Window (2025)
A nostalgic winter street scene outside a glowing Woolworths shopfront. A family stops to admire the Christmas display, warm with lights, toys, and cards, while a red phone box and passing figures fade into the seasonal mist.
The painting captures a moment of shared stillness and wonder, set against the timeless backdrop of Britain’s high street traditions.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel
Dimensions: 18 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £550 (excl. shipping)
The Factory March (2025)
A nostalgic winter street scene outside a glowing Woolworths shopfront. A family stops to admire the Christmas display, warm with lights, toys, and cards, while a red phone box and passing figures fade into the seasonal mist.
The painting captures a moment of shared stillness and wonder, set against the timeless backdrop of Britain’s high street traditions.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel
Dimensions: 18 x 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £550 (excl. shipping)
The Corner Shop (2023)
A mother feeds her baby outside the local shop while two women in headscarves catch up on the day’s news. A quiet afternoon unfolds: gentle, grounded, and deeply familiar. This painting captures a moment of small-town rhythm, the soft pulse of domestic routine, neighbourly bonds, and time held still at the corner.
Medium: Oil on canvas panel
Dimensions: 12 x 18 inches (unframed)
Date: 2023
Availability: Available
Price: £260 (excl. shipping)
The Morning Letter (2025)
A young boy stretches to post a letter under the watchful eye of an older woman, perhaps his grandmother, as they stand beside a red postbox on a damp winter morning. Her quiet smile and his focused gesture speak to a shared sense of purpose. Behind them, a hedge muffles the outside world, while the soft glow of the streetlamp and misty sky evoke the familiar hush of early day.
A tribute to everyday tenderness, quiet duty, and the small, meaningful rituals of British life.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel
Dimensions: 12 x 18 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £260 (excl. shipping)
The Ritual (2025)
A quiet devotion, passed from father to son, the ritual of polishing shoes with care and memory. Beneath the golden lamplight, each motion speaks of dignity, of readiness, of pride stitched into the smallest routines. The red leather gleams, not from vanity, but from love, for the life that walks within it.
Medium: Acrylic on custom canvas panel
Dimensions: 11 × 7.9 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £230 (excl. shipping)
Number 6 (2025)
A quiet moment before the long shift ahead — the man with the cap, caught between habit and necessity. The chrome edges of the vending machine gleam under the evening glow, coins rattling in his palm like loose memories. It’s not just a cigarette — it’s a ritual, a pause, a breath before the noise.
Medium: Acrylic on custom canvas panel
Dimensions: 18 × 12 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £320 (excl. shipping)
End of Shift (2025)
A quiet rain soaks the cobbled path as weary workers make their way home from the pit yard. Umbrellas rise, bicycles are wheeled alongside boots, and voices fall away into the rhythm of retreat. This painting captures the muted dignity of industrial life in motion, a final walk under lamplight, smoke and drizzle, where the day ends in a hush of human resilience.
Medium: Watercolour on textured paper
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £250 (excl. shipping)
The Morning Post (2025)
A knock on the frosted door, boots crunching softly on the snow. Wrapped in his long coat, the postman stands with a quiet patience, bicycle propped beside him, steam rising faintly from the warmth behind. A small boy waits with his mother — a moment lit by the hum of a kettle and the quiet promise of another day.
Medium: Acrylic on custom canvas panel
Dimensions: 12 × 8.5 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £280 (excl. shipping)
Shipyard Morning (2025)
Smoke rises with the cold morning light as workers fill the dockside, their silhouettes swallowed by the scale of cranes, hulls, and steel. A sense of movement hangs in the air — ships being built, men in motion, the thrum of labour echoing across rust and rivets. This painting captures the proud pulse of an industry once at the heart of a nation.
Medium: Acrylic on custom canvas panel
Dimensions: 12 × 8 inches (unframed)
Date: 2025
Availability: Available
Price: £280 (excl. shipping)
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