Artist. A friend and protege of Jean Cocteau, he achieved recognition as a painter while still quite young; Pablo Picasso considered him a potential genius. Fascinated with unschooled painters like Henri Rousseau, Wood developed a folk-like style (often using oil-based house paint for deliberately crude effect), though his draftsmanship was often brilliant. A troubled, openly gay opium addict, he committed suicide at 29, throwing himself under a train at Salisbury Station. A retrospective of Wood's work was first held in London in 1938. His portrait of composer Constant Lambert hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Lambert named his son, Christopher "Kit", after Wood.
Artist. A friend and protege of Jean Cocteau, he achieved recognition as a painter while still quite young; Pablo Picasso considered him a potential genius. Fascinated with unschooled painters like Henri Rousseau, Wood developed a folk-like style (often using oil-based house paint for deliberately crude effect), though his draftsmanship was often brilliant. A troubled, openly gay opium addict, he committed suicide at 29, throwing himself under a train at Salisbury Station. A retrospective of Wood's work was first held in London in 1938. His portrait of composer Constant Lambert hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Lambert named his son, Christopher "Kit", after Wood.
Bio by: Bobb Edwards
Inscription
CHRISTOPHER WOOD PAINTER 1901 - 1930
AND HIS MOTHER CLARA DOLORES WOOD 30 DEC 1946
ROBERT LUCIUS WOOD AGED 90 DOCTOR OF THE CHALKE VALLEY
Gravesite Details
Horizontal slab just to the left of the path, very close to the south entrance door of All Saints Church.
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