I mostly paint people, although I have been encouraged to experiment with other subject matter and mediums in the last year but recently I have settled on portraiture.
I want my paintings to look like they could be props in a Wes Anderson Movie.
I once saw a painting of a giant moose in the US Ambassador's office in Madrid in 2016 as part of the Art In Embassies Programme, and I remarked to my American companion that morning that it reminded me of the pictures in Eli Cash's house in the Tenenbaum's film. She laughed and agreed.
Of course we also know that Jason Schwartzman's character had been painting while brooding over lost love in a Parisian hotel room in Hotel Chevalier, meanwhile there is a grand kerfuffle over Ralph Fiennes being bequeathed 'Boy With Apple' in the Grand Hotel Budapest. I wish my pictures could be thought of as occupying the same vein within art history.
I'd also like a viewer to be able to envisage that the characters depicted in my work, somewhat removed from reality by an approach somewhat devoid of realism, could walk into the middle of a Wes Anderson movie and hold their own there.
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