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Caravaggio whose work, in the words of Simon Schama, cries out ‘Truth” about all else
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Turner and Rothko’s atmospheric use of colour
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Picasso’s Guernica
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Goya painting for posterity
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David’s skill, pointed out by Tom Gretton, to give true power to his work not by what he allows us see in it but by what he choses to exclude
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Giorgione’s stormy landscape surrounding social outcasts
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Bruegel’s biblical allegories
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Chagall and his dream-like world
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Leonardo’s emotive group narratives and his ability to encrypt himself in the picture
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Ensor’s love of masks
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Pacheco’s modernised religious tales
Some of my earlier works are reminiscent of the Commedia Dell’Arte or church murals such as the Doom: Heaven and Hell in South Leigh and The Virgin and
Child in South Newington, Oxfordshire.
