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Staged still life

I have never been a fan of staged still-life paintings, and was delighted to read Adam Ralston's article, ‘The everyday painter’ in the January 2024 issue of in which he explains his use of scenes from the breakfast table, and the clutter of his studio, which we surely all have available to us just waiting to be painted.

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