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ADAM PYETT

I’m also interested in wthe idea, best expressed by David Hockney, that once he has drawn something then he will always know it, and can draw it again.

YOU HAVE SAID YOUR WORKS ARE PRIMARILY ABOUT painting. Why did the still life genre become the best way to explore this for you?

I’ve always loved painting, looking at great paintings and trying to make great paintings. That was always my ambition, even before art school. The still life format came about organically in the studio. I was painting abstractly, this is maybe fifteen years ago, and I found that I was struggling to produce interesting

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