Chris Davey has studied fine art at first year undergraduate level (Open College of the Arts, OCA) and as part of his professional development he did monthly one-to-one portfolio reviews with the artist Ruth Koffer. He has a BSc (Joint Honours Zoology and Microbiology) and a PhD (biophysics) and some fifty scientific publications. Chris’s research has encompassed dielectrics, biochemical engineering, microbiology, medical biophysics, mathematical modelling, quantitative genetics and genomics.

Exhibitions:

• Illustration in article in “Annals of Botany” journal (2018).

• Four of "The new gargoyles project" paintings exhibited at Y Talbot Hotel (Tregaron, Ceredigion) as part of the 2017 Ceredigion Art Trail (Aug 1st-Aug 31st).

• Detail from drawing "Carbon fixed" (willow charcoal, chalk on recycled paper) used as part of cover of the journal "Global Change Biology: Bioenergy" (2017).

• Seven landscapes from the “Aberystwyth to Elan Valley project”. Blossoms Gallery Aberystwyth (2016).

• A self-portrait painting (acrylic paint) in portrait exhibition at Blossoms Gallery Aberystwyth (2016).

• "Nude 1" in “Open drawing exhibition: mark-making in any media” at the Gas Gallery Aberystwyth (2014).

• An illustration in “Back of envelope: imagined machines” at the Oriel Davies Gallery Newtown (2011).

• Drawing on the front cover of “Environmental Microbiology” journal (Jan 2011).