In 2022 The Dorchester, commissioned Christian Furr to create an imposing painting for their newly designed and refurbished lobby.
The 2.7 x 2.3m painting, featuring the Serpentine and Hyde Park, contains many themes and stories that celebrate the nature of the area.
Viewers are invited into a timeless scene of the edge of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, rendered at magnificent scale in oil paint.
Christian Furr brings together elements of nature, human activity and the seasons that span past, present and future, with numerous hidden elements to discover—lovers in the water, runners on the bank, rowers in the river, and the Serpentine Bridge in the distance.
The painting combines real and imagined elements that invoke a dreamlike atmosphere which is reminiscent of the spirit of J.M Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’.
Permanent collection of the Dorchester - The Dorchester Collection
23 January 2023 - The painting is now on dispaly at the Dorchester
