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Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. Through a fertile association with Lisbon’s English Theatre community, Valentin was a familiar enough figure behind the scenes for actors to allow his intimate invasion with a camera. The result was a stylised and timeless collection of two hundred fascinating backstage images capturing actors in preparation before and between scenes on a performance night. The collection was published as Melted Into Air . In 2015 Valentin brought his photography closer in terms of subject to his paintings. Compiling a list of deities from ancient Greek mythology, he set about portraying the spirit that each represents and publishing them as a collection entitled A Hundred Mortals . With emotional projection a key model requirement, he mainly chose to shoot with actors under his direction. Striking Coins was an initiative by Italian erotic filmmakers Impudens , to create content for virtual reality site Second Life . In collaboration with director Luca Cattaneo and musician Piero Arancia, Valentin expressed his exploration of sex and sexuality through micro-shorts of music, film and poetry. Filmed at Valentin's casa-estudio in Valencia, Spain La Nevera Triptych is an expressionist montage that portrays a troubled artist seeking to unburden his anguish and start a fresh life. Rendered in similar style to his photographic work, the original 40 minute version received its debut public screening at London's Shortwave Cinema in Bermondsey . Developing the format of his earlier ' micro-short' film work with Impudens , Pain My Portrait served as the vehicle for Valentin to explore the relationship between his art, music, image making and poetry. 'Lament' from La Nevera Triptych [2025 treatment] Valentin's expressionistic shorts led to a fruitful collaboration with Portuguese cinematographer Francisco D. Oliveira and his company Lab Rat Studios . Together they produced experimental music videos and a series of arthouse portrait documentaries including The Woman, The Machine and Art Without Turmoil - the latter of which featured at London’s premier ShortCutz film festival. CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026

Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. In his teens Valentin experimented with 4 track recording, developing his own techniques to incorporate backing tracks into live performance. With the birth of the internet, he began composing soundscapes of piano, synthesiser and spoken poetry to accompany his visual content online. With later advances in digital workstations and consumer software, this developed into writing and recording compositions for filmmaking projects. From 2019, he began producing music shows and in creating backing tracks for these, took a more in-depth look at DAW capabilities. What began with producing a wide range of cover versions, evolved into an experiment with songwriting and in collaboration with musician Will Hughes, he produced an album of original material, released in 2024 as ' Live from the Opium Cafe ' . LISTEN HERE ON BANDCAMP CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026

Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026 chase@valentinbardo.net Site copy Rivkah Efron 2025

Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026 chase@valentinbardo.net Site copy Rivkah Efron 2025

Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. Valentin's introduction to the art of 'creating spectacle' came in his late teens via circus theatre group Laughter In The Garden. Combining elements of Commedia dell'arte with Gothic-inspired improvisation, this experimental troupe encouraged him to explore all aspects of stage craft and design and to find within himself his own "humanity." Aged twenty-one Valentin moved to London, working first at BBC Costume and then moving into the field of PR, staging and promoting events for the capital's music and fashion industries. These microcosmic pieces of theatre put him into close contact with a range of creative players who broadened his artistic vocabulary and o ver the coming years as an artist in his own right, he remained mindful of the power of spectacle when staging his exhibitions. In 2009 he was welcomed into the heart of Lisbon's Teatro Ingles community and began to explore drama production proper, tackling a variety of roles with companies including The Lisbon Players, Produçoes Prospero and Feltro Preto . THE MAN OUTSIDE by Wolfgang Borchert . To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, Valentin was invited by German director Rebecca Steingraber to design and co-direct Wolfgang Borchert’s Expressionist drama, 'The Man Outside'. Originally billed as 'the play nobody wants to make and nobody wants to see', it portrays a shell-shocked German soldier returning home after the war. Valentin's single set featured multiple scenic quarters representing a destroyed city and neighbourhood. His costumes combined threadbare 1940s glamour with dramatic allegorical pieces created with seamstress Liz Day. HAMLET by William Shakespeare . Valentin designed the set and costumes for the Lisbon Players production directed by Jonathan Weightman. The drama is set in a timeless period but the costumes hint at 1940s glamour. The use of bold, dominant nationalistic symbols and industrial slab-like rostra, paint Elsinor Castle as overshadowed by the threat of war. The single set format creates a sense of claustrophobic tension, with a spiral representing 'this mortal coil'. 1/1 Giving rise to many fruitful collaborations, theatre became the crucible of Valentin's creativity, and o n moving to Fishguard (Wales) in 2018, his experience and colour was welcomed by the town's colourful residents and its local theatre. For the next five years he worked for the benefit of the community, engaged in producing and directing music projects, developing arts initiatives, and working with multiple venues and organisations to stage and promote live entertainment & events. After a long absence Valentin himself also returned to performing, bringing his artistic career full circle. 9 10 1 9 1/19 1/1 CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026

Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. Valentin's passion for literature and language has manifested in numerous ways throughout his career. Whilst poetry and lyrics are his primary vehicle for this, he has also been engaged in writing scripts and treatments for stage, film and broadcast, librettos, monologues, flash fiction, magazine articles, theatre programmes, promotional material, ceremonial text and short stories. Inspired by Gialli , an Italian 20th century genre of pulp crime and mystery that often included shocking elements of horror and eroticism. It takes its name from the publisher's trademark yellow (giallo) cover. Not destined for the bookshelf, the cheaply printed paperbacks and were produced literally for the trash. Featuring stark tales from the perspective of a tense adolescent, 250 copies of Memory Lane Massacre were abandoned at stations and arts venues in London. Monitoring of its ISBN have found copies in second hand bookshops as far as the USA. In The Shadow Of The Gods is a catalogue published to accompany Valentin's 2017 London exhibition. Featuring poetic and philosophical passages that borrow from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Jung, their thoughts express something of template for finding spiritual fulfilment in a godless world. CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026

Portal of British artist Chase Valentin - featuring expressionistic art, photography, music, film and written word. His studio, Valentin Bardo, is based in Fishguard, Wales. Crafted in layers that veil or reveal incident, Valentin's paintings have an apparitional quality. While abstraction plays a significant role in conveying his psychologically charged narrative, the solitary male figure takes centre stage. Sensually rendered with draughtsmanship influenced by Greco-Roman and Renaissance artistry, they portray intimate expressions of an embattled psyche. As an expressive tool Valentin values abstraction as equal to figurative. Whilst sometimes utilising singular abstracts to illustrate a particular point, his broader collections are statements in themselves, expressing an evolving thought or state through the exploration of a single motif. Several collections have been commissioned for site-specific installation. Notable examples are the Tightrope series commissioned by Soufraki Interiors for Prince Consort House in the City of London, and the Corinthians collection commissioned by the Concordia Arts Foundation as a backdrop for the English Song Prize held at London's October Gallery in Mayfair. “When existence seems nothing but a disquieting vacuum, abstraction offers dialogue.” As a painter, Valentin defied traditional practice by bouncing radically and freely between expressive styles. Over time he developed a reputation for acting as his own impresario, attracting curiosity by unveiling his work annually as novel collections. Between 1997 - 2017, he showed around six hundred paintings and sculptures, staging twenty solo exhibitions in major European cities including London, Valencia, Lisbon and Madrid. CHOOSE WHERE TO GO NEXT HOME ART MUSIC IMAGE STAGE WORD 2026