I've always loved images of interior spaces because there is an aura of secrecy and intimacy about them. I've also loved the philosophy of making something interesting and poetic from the so-called ordinary things that surround us. The above two paintings were inspired by a number of artworks I've seen over the years. Vermeer's The Milkmaid and Lucian Freud's Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink have liquids that are forever being poured from a jug or running from a tap. It's like perpetual motion in paint. My two works were done 30 years apart which just goes to show that liquid streaming from a container of sorts is still an inspiring thing to paint.
Here are some artworks that have inspired my own paintings of still life and interiors and especially the two bathroom ones.
A detail of Lucian Freud's painting Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink,
Cressida Cambell's Shelf Still Life, 2012, Woodblock, 90 x 138 5 cm
