CHRIS LANGLOIS 2026 by OLSEN Gallery

CHRIS LANGLOIS 2026

Chris Langlois | Eulittoral

OLSEN GALLERY

27 May - 20 June 2026

I have spent the past year looking at painting bodies of water differently. I had lots of ideas about the intertidal zones of the sea and rivers, and ended up painting a sort of smorgasbord of ideas that were in my head. The paintings in Eulittoral are a play at adaptation, a changing zone of how I might mess around with painting.

I started in familiar territory by creating paintings similar to those in my last body of work, before launching into unfamiliar territory. Over time, subtle differences were introduced that eventually wandered off into the seemingly unrelated, however there is a thread that runs through the show and ties all the works together: all of the paintings are of places where the land and water meet.

The same sub themes are still here; mainly the not-quite-real realism ﬂoating in a space of not a lot, slithers of lots of busy stuff surrounded by big areas of subtle nothingness and off the shoulder painterliness executed with a no.1(read small) brush, which, from a distance reads otherwise. People would have you believe that painting nothing is easy; don’t believe them. I like suggestion in my paintings, I’d rather not have to explain too much.

The eulittoral zone (also called the midlittoral or mediolittoral zone) is the intertidal zone, known also as the foreshore. It extends from the spring high tide line, which is rarely inundated, to the spring low tide line, which is rarely not inundated. It is alternately exposed and submerged once or twice daily.