I’ve always been strangely fascinated by itinerant
lifestyles, trailer parks, and the ‘edgelands’. A distant relative of mine through marriage
is the photo-realist painter John Salt.
He made his name in New York
in the 70s, 80s painting wrecks of automobiles and trailer homes – he saw in
them the dissolution of the American Dream.
He’s a very humble man, and his source material is too, as well as
beautifully melancholic. In this piece I’ve
adopted John’s subject matter and the style of another photo-realist painter, Patrick
Caulfield, in an attempt to celebrate the simple life.
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