Christopher Frewin

Artist & Photographer

About

About the artist.

Christopher Frewin, 33, is from the United States, lives in Austria, and works in Switzerland as a software engineer. As a part-time artist, he enjoys pen and ink illustration, vector graphics, pixel art, watercolor, acrylic, and photography. His current works combine his illustrations or photographs blended into vector graphics that depict mountains, trees, stars, moons, suns, auroras, northern lights, mountain huts, industrial structures, and more. He frequently creates relatively dark prints carefully accented with pastels and/or neon colors, and likewise, favors photography at sunset or dusk (also known as "blue hour" photography).

Some of his prints depict well-known alpine scenes and sometimes include additional science fiction elements to form the final product: poster prints with a low color count - prints which are ideal for clean silk screen or giclée prints and can be scaled to any resolution without losing fidelity. His works sometimes include allegory, metaphors, and social commentary on environmental and climate change issues which stand as a contrast to the mountainous and natural areas his prints depict. He draws inspiration from the prints of the Japanese woodblock masters, the Hudson River School artists, Works Progress Administration (WPA) art prints from the United States, select American illustrators and digital artists, and Vaporwave art (1990s influenced neon colored art).

While his posters are currently printed by external companies, Chris hopes one day to operate his own personal print studio.