Chris
Coles is an artist and filmmaker who divides his time between Bangkok and the
coast of Maine. He is one of the first
artists to explore the world of the Bangkok Night. His paintings, in the Expressionist style,
are jagged emotional portraits, revealing a raw and primitive layer of the
human experience.
Chris
grew up on the coast of Maine and after graduating from Brown University,
received a Watson Fellowship to spend a year living in the Bajuni Islands off
the coast of East Africa where he made a series of voyages up and down the
coast in Swahili trading dhows. He has
also lived and worked in Europe, North America, Asia, the South Pacific,
Australia and Greenland. Chris is also a
graduate of the British National Film School and has taken art courses at the
Otis School in Los Angeles. Among the
films he has worked on are CHAPLIN, L.A. STORY, RAINBOW WAR, SIRENS, CUTTHROAT
ISLAND, SUPERMAN and many more.
