Christopher Wassell & Phil Beaumont in conversation with Bread & Salt Gallery Director Thomas DeMello

Both Artists have separate solo exhibitions on view March-April 2025

this conversation took place in March 2025

Christopher Wassell (b 1969) is an abstract painter living and working in Tijuana BC.
In his upcoming exhibition AMNESIA new oil paintings explore themes of figuration, dramatic narrative and the impermanence of memory.
A smeared medley of crashed cars, horse parts and ghostly human forms populate this current body of work which reads like a storyboard of clouded half-memories and partially forgotten dreams.

Born in Fradley, England, Phil Beaumont bounced across the Atlantic living in Montreal, Canada, then Birmingham, England, and finally landing in California. 
He served as the Director of the Museum School for more than two decades, until recently stepping aside to spend more time on art and music.
Always an avid traveler and photographer, Phil enjoys capturing details that can be easily missed. 
Almost by accident, he began capturing these details in long form, through still frame videos that allow the viewer to pause and stay with a moment. An antidotal response to the rapid consumption of information and images on social media sites, these prolonged photographs, or ‘long photos’, often capture incidental moments that pass through the frame, such as an off screen rock thrown into a lake, snowflakes rising and falling in a vortex, or a swimmer held in frame by a river’s current. 
Notar - Notice - Kizuku invites the audience to share some of these moments