Estate Living August 2016 Digital Issue | Page 58

with a capital It’s a very rare person who in that his people, plants doesn’t art and animals are accurately somewhere in their home. and realistically depicted in Granted, sometimes it’s just colour, shape and form. In to fill a blank wall or pick up fact, probably the first thing the colour of the carpet, but it you notice about them is can be so much more. Estate the quality of light. It gives Living chatted recently to the his subjects a depth and an wildly creative and ever-so- inner glow – life, almost. And slightly wacky artist Peter van that’s thanks to technique. have some Straten about the nature of reality and the