Artist's Back to Basics

Thoughts of Still Life

But ‘still life’ has broadened its subject base in recent years. Artists have grown braver with compositions, to the point that any inanimate object has become fair game. Speaking of game, Kate Bergin’s quirky pictures of taxidermied fowls and foxes come to mind. Also, Deb Mostert’s depictions of children’s plastic toys are unusual. These are two painters who have found subjects well outside the traditional square and

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