Christopher Saliba has exhibited at the Louvre and the European Parliament and received awards in the 2007 Malta International Biennale and the 2011 National Art Competition at the Malta Society of Arts.

He was also referred to by art critic and writer Emmanuel Fiorentino as one of the “leading up-and-coming artists” of Gozo, the Mediterranean island he calls home.

Saliba applies vivid colour and textured brushwork to expansive horizons, described by esteemed writer Prof Joe Friggieri as “spiritual landscapes” depicting a “whirling inner world of sensations, impressions, fears, passions and hopes,” and by Prof Louis Laganà as “intimate and insightful views of the internal and external visions of the world.”

“I try to enhance the idea of the primordial and the divine qualities of nature.” Saliba juxtaposes the spatial limitations of island psychology with “the grandeur of nature and feelings of awe, vastness and infinity.”

Graduating from the University of Malta, Saliba won a scholarship to the Accademia Belle Arti Perugia, read for his Masters degree in Fine Arts then taught art at the Wistin Camilleri School of Art.

He has exhibited in Italy, England, Malta, France, Japan, Canada and the USA and features in the collections of global art institutions.