Christopher Daharsh Studio Visit

This 6 minute take you to Christopher Daharsh's studio leading up to his exhibition We'll Understand It When We're Older at the Clubhouse Gallery. In developing these paintings, he found himself thinking about Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, and particularly the Finnish painter Pekka Halonen. After moving to a more rural home marked by long winters and heavy snowfall, the experience of painting through winter became central. Halonen’s snowy landscapes — their stillness, compression, and psychological quiet — offered a point of reflection as Daharsh worked through his own shifting terrain. His oil and charcoal paintings accumulate through walking, looking, and memory; forms swell and cluster like growth pushing upward through frozen ground. The surfaces feel geological and atmospheric at once, shaped as much by season as by emotion. The works on paper register a more immediate tempo, tracing gestures that suggest drift, thaw, and gradual emergence.