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How do you describe your work?
It’s what I am feeling. Like I used to do a
lot of surreal work but I fell out of love with
that when I started realism. To describe my
artwork I want to put emotion and a story
behind it, even if I do a still life I want to
tell a story.
How did you come up with your
current style?
I don’t think I have a definite style yet, I
get inspired from artists that I love. My
favorite living artist is Jeremy Lipking.
There’s just something about his work. I just
feel something when I look at it. Artists of
the past too, like Caravaggio and Herbert
James Draper and William Waterhouse. I
see what I like from them and then I think
“I have a cool idea for a painting or a story,
how can I portray it in a way that they
would but also how would I portray it?” I
don’t want to look like a mimic of anybody.
How do you come up with ideas for
new pieces?
Some stuff just comes to me or I’ll think
of a feeling I’m going for and I try to make
up a story to it. Like “Moondance”, I just
thought of the moon dancing between the
stars and how beautiful that would be. Also
“Love in the Nick of Time” that came from
the song, “I can’t make you love me”, the
cover by Bon Iver, the feeling that line gave
me made me want to portray this message
but give off the feeling that I got.
How have you supported your art
career so far?
Over the Christmas holiday I did some
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