Meet Modern Muse is inspired by The Proust Questionnaire. Proust Questionnaire originated in a parlor game popularised (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature
Short & Sweet...
Describe yourself in one word... Passionate
Describe your art in three words... Bold, reflective and emotive
What is a “Muse” for you? Probably that feeling that you don't know what it is yet Someone who awaking an inner desire to create and capture
If I was, I would be...
If I was a historical period in art.. Post-war London
If I was a colour... Flesh Pink
If I was a place... Paris, France
If I was a feeling... Tenderless
If I was an animal... Dog
If I was a pencil or a brush... Brush
If I want to escape I go.... Tate, Liverpool
If I could speak with... Francis Bacon about what he was thinking about whilst painting “Three Studies for a Crucifixion"
In more detail...
Where are you from?
Liverpool
What is the arts community like there?
Liverpool obviously is known worldwide for its music. But the city has a great art culture. Liverpool has two great galleries, the Tate and the Walker. However, there is a great local art scene and great art stores. There is something always to look and think about
Has where you come from shaped who you are as an artist today?
Yes, there is loads of talented artists here. The industrial feel of the city has an inspiration effect on me
Where do you live now?
Liverpool
When did you start to think about yourself as an artist?
Very recently. I feel young in the art world.
What is something you do every day?
Drink a pot of tea
Where does your inspiration come from?
Love and nature
What is your starting point when looking at a blank canvas?
To abandon my original idea of the painting and learn to embrace where the painting wants to go
Tell us a secret about one of your works?
I have a mirror to the back of me when I paint. I occasionally do a quick turn around to look at myself. I use this quick motion to sometimes assist with the next brushstroke
What is your most treasured possession?
My two dachshunds: Pablo & Jasper
Who are your Muse(s) in real life?
My love
Who is your hero or heroine of fiction?
Anna Calvi
What Art Gallery do you love?
Alberto Giacometti in Paris is my favourite
What is the best exhibition you have seen in the last year?
Tracy Emin and Edvard Munch, The Loneliness of the Soul, at Royal Academy of Arts via YouTube
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?
Keep trying and experiment
What wouldn’t you do without?
My family, my love and colour
If you could own a work by 3 different artists, who would be in your collection?
Three Studies for a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon, The Visit by Willem de Kooning and Harmony in red by Henri Matisse
What is your motto?
“If you can talk about it, why paint it?" by Francis Bacon
