LIKE MANY ARTISTS, Will Rochfort’s childhood was spent drawing, copying Disney characters from the TV, building models out of cardboard or making stop-motion animations with plasticine. For some reason, he was also always drawn to the bright lights and colours of American pop culture. It wasn’t his upbringing that influenced this: whilst his family always encouraged his creative output, he grew up in a small town called Lymington on the south coast of England, a long way from the Golden Age of Hollywood that fills his work. He suspects it came from the films he grew up watching and cites Indiana Jones, The Goonies, Superman and Jaws as particularly memorable.
He describes his style of painting as somewhere between realism and impressionism. Someone once described it as ‘posed reality,’ which struck a chord as every element of his paintings has been staged in some way. He cites Norman
