'Artist bio'Christian Burnham was born in Eastbourne, England in 1973. Christian’s father was a civilengineer, and during the seventies his work took Christian’s family to South Africa forseveral years, before returning to Europe to relocate in Sweden and Belgium. By the ageof twenty he was multilingual in four languages.From an early age Christian realised he had a talent for riding off road motorcycles, and in1991 he made the brave decision to move to Belgium and focus on a career as aprofessional motocross rider. For the next fifteen years he competed at the very highestlevel, racing for both British and German race teams, winning the German nationalchampionships, and scoring regular top ten finishes in the world motocrosschampionships. His racing took him to the four corners of the globe and gave him thechance to experience so many extraordinary cultural differences across the world.Retiring from a life of top-flight racing hit Christian badly. The massive hole left by hisracing developed into a loss of purpose, and left Christian with challenges that he hadnever experienced before. His life descended to lows that no one could ever haveimagined, and a severe alcohol addiction rapidly followed and tore his world apart. It wasduring his period of rehabilitation that Christian rediscovered his passion for art, giving himthe strength to explore and regenerate the inner mechanics of his creative conscience,and to start the long journey to overcome the biggest challenge of his life. His love for artgave him back the sense of purpose in life that he was missing and reunited him withfamily and friends that were always so precious to him.From small doodles and sketches to large scale projects, all of Christian’s artworkembraces a highly personal reflection of his own life experiences. He is entirely self-taught,fueling a limitless desire to create increasingly complex paintings using spraypaints and stencils as his main medium. With a combination of contemporary art, graffitiand photo realistic images, Christian has developed his own style, and his work is findingits way into private collections around the world.Christian draws on inspiration from his very vivid imagination and his own life experiences,often because of changes in his own life brought on by his successful road to recovery