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Meet the Artist | Interview with Daniel Pincham-Phipps

Daniel Pincham-Phipps is a painter whose early works were inspired by the elements and exploration of relationships. Much of his current work is influenced by his lifetime career as a comic artist, incorporating graphic lines and bright colours. Daniel enjoys investigating direction by continually reworking pieces in a search for their identity, which has helped him develop his practice. 

1) Which art movement do you consider most influential on your practice?

Abstract Expressionism and/or Neo Expressionism.
 
2) Where do you go and when to make your best art?
 
I work every day from home, or work as much as I can if there’s nothing else that requires doing. My best art comes as a result of continual practice, I enjoy this the most. The challenge is what is good for me, within a painting. 
 
3) How do you describe your 'creative process'?
 
It comes from inside me, with a search to find the something. Observing human behaviour, society and its complexity inspires me. I have developed and pushed back that which is insignificant, by spending years of experimentation in my painting. My process has become stronger and more focused as a result, by reducing any unnecessary information and auto biographical meanings. Listening to people who are not artist’s or can’t see, is an easy way to be steered away from what you were born to do and are good at.
 
 
4) Which artist, living or deceased, is the greatest inspiration to you?
 
All artists are an inspiration to me, but Per Kirkeby, Willem de Kooning, Jean Michel Basquiat, Miodrag Duric Dado are major likes of mine. I remember bumping into Michael Palin, while visiting a Willem De Kooning exhibition at the RA. We had a good chat about art, my art and the great De Kooning.
 
5) If you weren't an artist, what would you do?
 
SAS.
 
6) What do you listen to for inspiration?
 
Any music that inspires me, I like all forms and I suppose am eclectic in this respect.
 
7) If you could own one artwork, and money was no object, which piece would you acquire?
 
Tikai, Miodrag Duric Dado.
 
 
8) If your dream museum or collection owner came calling, which would it be?
 
Tate Modern.
 
9) What is your key piece of advice for artists embarking on a fine art or creative degree today?
 
Work towards finding what you like to create, try not to be a jack of all trades be master of one. Find cohesion, not style, avoid a bit of everything.
 
10) What is your favorite book of all time (fiction or non fiction)?
 
Difficult choice, after my degree I stopped reading regularly and looked towards other visual inspirations. A book I remember reading on recommendation, but can’t remember it was about is, The Outsider Albert Camus.
 
11) If you could hang or place your artwork in one non traditional art setting, where would that be?
 
Mum's house.
 
 
12) What was the biggest lesson your university course or time studying taught you?
 
To find myself, believing in my work and direction in what I create. Being in the company of the great Bob and Roberta Smith and Chris Jennings, were major influences to my future practice and direction.
 
13) And finally, if we were to fast forward 10 years, where would we find you?
 
Exhibition in the Tate Modern, travel to Moma to see 5 works being installed then off to the Louvre for a solo exhibition.
 
 
       

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