Raphael is such a technically advanced and skilled artist and I particularly respond to the nuances he gets in his surfaces, for example: adding marble dust to pigments to differentiate between fabric and flesh, or the way he under-paints layers using complementary or triadic colour relationships. He is a well to go to, to learn about painting.
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I want to believe that abstract painting can be as great as figuration, but this is a battle that must be fought on abstract art’s terms and not figuration’s.
Read MoreMatisse and those black lines
...If you could step into a Matisse painting nothing would bruise you, yet you would always feel the gravity of the situation and never lose your orientation
Read MoreColour space in Matisse
Matisse's colour moved towards the ultraviolet end of the spectrum
Matisse influences
Matisse stands out as a major influence in my work. As much for his approach to art as the results. He practised his art in a methodical way with such an emphasis on questioning that his visual language never seems tired or mannered