'Having Children and Sensing Mortality has Inspired My New Work' for Starters... For Starters... This Life After a Difficult Year Dominated by Cancer in His Family, Abstract Painter Christopher Wood Is Finally Holding His First Big Show in Glasgow

Sunday Herald › October 10, 2006

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"WITH two small children my day always starts the same way: the kids get up at 7am and we make breakfast. My wife works in Edinburgh so she heads off soon after that and I get the kids ready. They're both in nursery full time and I get them there for 8.30am. So I'm a nine-to-five painter now.

That was difficult to begin with, and took some getting used to. The children restrict my work time, of course, but they give me so much pleasure and I've found that having them has been quite an amazing experience for me. It has plugged me into the continuum of my own family and made me much more aware of, well, mortality I suppose. In a sense that's really what has inspired me in my new work.

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'Having Children and Sensing Mortality has Inspired My New Work' for Starters... For Starters... This Life After a Difficult Year Dominated by Cancer in His Family, Abstract Painter Christopher Wood Is Finally Holding His First Big Show in Glasgow

This has been a very difficult year for me. I started working for my new show 18 months ago and that was just after my daughter was born. Then, at the beginning of this year, my step-mother got...

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