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​After many years involved in science and

engineering and a Masters degree in

surface engineering, a career change enabled

Chris to gain a First Class Honours degree

in Fine art at Birmingham School of Art.  

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In 2022 Chris raised more than £1,000 for the  Birmingham Burns Unit with a four-day exhibition. This was to highlight a tragedy in 1922 when 19 young girls died in an industrial explosion. The exhibition featured paintings, sculptures and textiles.  This work received wide media attention and was featured on BBC television.

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Recent collage work is a salute to her scientific background, AI and the intrigue about how artificial intelligence might be the future or the end of art. 

Her more recent sculptural work has looked at substance abuse. This work features the welding of nitrous oxide cylinders into trees.

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Bert Hardy 1916-1983.  Chris's father took an interest in art and particularily photography from an early age.   He was a registered ARPS photographic judge, lectured on photographic techniques and was a founder member of Aston Photographic Club, Birmingham.  He won numerous awards for his landscape and portrait photographs throughout his life, many taken of Chris.