Laptop Writer
A woman with headphones typing on a laptop glimpsed on a train journey and surreptitiously caught in a sketch became the subject for a painting of contemporary life. I don’t know why but I felt it was a compelling image worthy of many hours of design studies and painting. The view out of the window is a blur of dark stripes very similar to my abstract paintings derived from landscape colours. Is it a view? Or maybe it’s an abstract painting in contrast with the Hopperesque realism of the inside of the train carriage. Like Edward Hopper I have tried to create the atmosphere of an isolated life in the modern digital screen-based world. Whose is the cup of coffee with the lid on? I don’t know. Painted in the early 2000s it is one of the last of a series of figure-centred paintings from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s.
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| Ship to | Cost |
|---|---|
| UK Mainland Royal Mail Parcelforce Express 48 + packing | £65.00 |
| USA Parcelforce Global Priority (4 business days) + packing | £170.00 |
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$3957
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About the artist
I am a painter of northern landscapes and of the sea. I'm an established artist in the north of England but I'm also known more widely with for example my TV participation in the SKY Portrait Artist of the Year competition.
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