Collection: Chris Austin

Chris Austin is a painter based in Toronto, Canada. His work utilizes a surrealist vision of the natural world to tell stories about significant encounters and incidents. He creates three-dimensional sculptures that he uses as inspiration and then translates them into paintings. A figure in a yellow rain slicker stands in for the viewer in several works, bearing witness to levitating sharks and marine life as they move through our world. The inexplicable nature of these scenes draws us into a world out of kilter, it's central figures displaced, and asks us to reflect on our own assumptions about the natural world. One of the most impressive aspects of Austin’s work is his ability to generate and execute concepts at a prolific rate while maintaining an extremely high level of quality. He drops images of new work every few days on instagram and has 65K followers.