5/22/2023 0 Comments Nicola samori prints for sale![]() I thought I would just start painting little installations that's where it all began. You had to fight a bit to keep up with them and be seen. At Cardiff they were massive on really progressive installation art, much of it inspired by Damien Hirst and really weren't into painting. ![]() ![]() I think I just absorbed what the installation and performance guys were doing. Were there any particular artists you encountered at college that informed this approach? With New Still Life I tried to draw people's attention to the fact that it was Still Life painting, it had that tradition behind it yet it wasn't like anything else people had seen before. It is about that personal challenge of trying to give something a soul and spirit that is inanimate and I'm still on that particular train now. At college you can do that, that's the time you can pick something and give it a go. ![]() Objects were harder to make and draw any essence or emotional quality out of and probably in some masochistic way I went for something that didn't sell as easily. I found people accepted portraits quite easily and at the time I just wanted to move onto something more challenging. I didn't get bored of it but I knew there was some other challenge in there for me. How did this style of painting and genre develop for you?Ĭhris: I started doing portraits a long time ago at college, probably twenty years ago, and I absolutely loved doing them. ![]() Artrepublic: You are a painter of New Still Life which is a modern departure from traditional Still Life painting. ![]()
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