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In his current work, Gregor is creating two connected, but opposing bodies of work which explore ideas about the nature of identity and pose questions about individual and group consciousness.

His intense and dramatic oil paintings are abstract landscapes composed entirely of human forms endlessly progressing through time. Individuals figures are indistinguishable from the overall mass in these paintings which we observe them from the perspective of an outsider.

In contrast his works on paper focus on small groups of individuals. These energetic figures are fuelled with emotion, each experiencing their unique lives in an inner world that we are invited to enter.

His work takes cues from the expressive techniques of Pollock, late Monet and late Degas as well as philosophical ideas explored by artists such as Rothko. Gregor works on several paintings concurrently, one piece feeding off another. He employs a broad, fluid style that attempts to be both focussed and free, creating sweeps of deep, saturated colour overlaid with flowing transparent washes.

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Gregor has a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, he is qualified is an architect and has a PhD in Environmental Design.

Between 1996 and 2000, Gregor worked as the Millennium Dome's Technical Troubleshooter. He managed the design of the Dome’s Gardens, Watercycle, 3Dome and Rest Zone and worked with artists such as Anish Kapoor, Bill Culbert and Artangel as well as the architect Richard Rogers. Gregor was responsible for Environmental Policy and was director of Earth Day at the Dome, part of the world’s biggest ever environmental event. 

After leaving the Dome Gregor studied Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art College where he was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma. He then began painting full time and exhibiting at galleries in London and the South East.

His first solo show was in 2001, when he suspended 50 experimental, semi-abstract portraits from the cavernous roof of a renovated power station behind Hoxton Square. Suspended from trapeze wires, paintings were hung in sequences, each group tackling the same subject but with progressive paintings becoming more abstract. The resulting sequences charted the descent of the subjects from the real world to the abstract depths of the subconscious. 400 people attended the dramatic private view during which half the collection was sold in just four hours.

Gregor won the de Laszlo Foundation Prize for Portraiture in 2001.

His second solo show was staged at the elegant Flying Colours Gallery in Chelsea in 2004. The show was the culmination of 12 months’ work and presented a thought-provoking interpretation of the contemporary British landscape, focussing on the boundaries between our conscious and subconscious perception of the environment.

In his current work, Gregor is creating two connected, but opposing bodies of work which explore ideas about the nature of identity and pose questions about individual and group consciousness.

Gregor continues to provide occasional architectural and environmental consultancy, and is currently advising the University of Southampton on the masterplanning of its estate.

He also gives talks on art and environmental design. He has tutored architectural students on environmental design and was external examiner for the BSc (Architectural Studies) at the Welsh School of Architecture in 2000. 

He has published research papers on environmental design, and in 2007 published a book of his paintings.

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