I was browsing in a second hand book shop and picked up a slightly worn dusty art book with images of still life paintings of dusty bottles and pitchers by an Italian painter called Giorgio Morandi. I was intrigued how simple arrangements of bottles, pitchers and tins could be made into such compelling little works of art. I was 35 years old at the time and now 37 years later I still feel inspired by Morandi. Through the year 2021 I made some paintings using the same sort of vessels that Morandi would have used, adding seasonal fruit to the compositions, I liked the extra colour. These paintings were popular and I made some sales at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington. This year, 2024 I returned again to the still life genre, this time using my camera, outside Wairarapa sunshine and an Epson pigment printer to make a more direct way a modern take on the still life genre.
