Chris Henderson’s paintings sit at the uneasy intersection of beauty and struggle, belonging and dislocation. Drawing from lived observation, emotional memory, and the mythologies we carry, he builds symbolic spaces where figures resist, endure, and drift between states of survival and tenderness. Working instinctively with bold forms and expressive colour, Henderson gives shape to the tensions beneath the surface, the silent weight of systems, the fragility of youth, and the emotional states that often resist being named.