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