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Where do you find inspiration?
Food packaging, boot fairs,
impressionism, commercial design,
quotidian items, work wear, war
propaganda, off-licenses, pizzerias,
washing up liquid, cheap sportswear,
Manpreet Ahluwalia, glitches,
football sticker books, cheap food
vendors, low quality digital graphics,
Dall-e, stereotypes, Egon Schiele,
microstars, memes, and the men who
stand outside gigs selling bootleg
merchandise.
Who are your biggest artistic
influences?
If you could own one artwork, what
would it be?
The Stone Breakers by Gustave
Courbet.
How do you see your work evolving
in the future?
I feel like embroidery will combine
with my painting, or at least inform it.
What advice would you give to your
first-year self?
Buy olive oil soap to wash your
brushes with, instead of leaving them
in a pot of white spirit until you need
to use them again.
How do you keep motivated?
I switch between painting, drawing,
embroidery and digital work so there
is always something which excites
me.
How do you know when a painting,
or piece of work, is finished?
There is never a defined end point,
but it usually ends when the thought
of working on it doesn’t excite me
anymore.
Why do you make art?
You’re hosting a dinner party for 3
artists, who would it be?
It is just a compulsion, an itch that
I need to scratch. I will grasp and
latch onto anything which can act as
a vehicle for me to create visual art.
It is a way of showing people how I
view things.
Jay-Z, Winston Churchill, and Robert
Crumb.
How do you decide on your colour
palette for a piece?
Probably Egon Schiele, Roy
Lichtenstein, and Kandinsky.
It is intuitive, but the colour yellow
always seems to appear.
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