I started painting fashion illustrations when I was probably nine or something and it just
kind of went from there, like always in my room, painting away, I loved art school and
things like that so I suppose it's always something I've done and it's just grown from
there kind of fascination with people and tends to be quite, it started out quite fashion
related and I suppose that still comes into it but kind of branched out a bit more now.
I think going back to the fashion related aspect of my work, the people who grab my
attention do tend to be people who use clothing as quite a big part of their identity.
So when I've been travelling and things, it tends to be women that I want to paint and
I am interested in.
I feel like they're trying to express something more through the way they look in their clothing
and when I went travelling, I went to Sri Lanka.
I think the people who grab my attention were the older ladies who still dress in quite
a traditional way and it is quite an elegant style.
They're not dressing for somebody particularly but I just think they dress in quite a colourful
way or something that just felt quite natural to them but grabs my attention.
There's kind of more of a risk in it like they could move when you're drawing and if
you're just drawing someone on the street, you have a limited time and you have to capture
that moment and what you see whereas with landscape, although that is an element of
landscape, obviously there are light changes and the seasons and things but I feel like
with people there's more, I don't know, you have more empathy with people or I do so I
want to capture that, I want to capture that personality.
