Chris Stevens studied Fine Art at the University of Reading.  He is a figurative painter who has exhibited regularly since graduating in 1978. His studio is in the South of France where he spends most of his time.  

His solo exhibitions include the PM Gallery, London, Smelik & Stokking and Galerie Rademakers in Amsterdam, the GlynnVivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea and the Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff. Group shows include REALITY, with artists such as Lucien Freud, David Hockney and Walter Sickert, Fussball in Der Kunst, with Andy Warhol and Marcus Lupertz in Germany, the BP Portrait Award at the National Gallery London, and Heads at Flowers East, London. He has been a prizewinner in the BP Portrait Award, 50 over 50 and more recently in the Painted Faces exhibition organised by the Saatchi Gallery. He has also undertaken Arts Council residencies at Sunderland Football Club and Birmingham International Airport.  He has work in public and private collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The National Gallery of Wales, Unilever, Galerija Portreta, Bosnia & Hertzegovena and many private collections in UK, South Africa, USA and Europe.