I painted Soane’s last 3 surviving pocket books that comprised details of his trips to Italy. I had read somewhere that it is possible to learn architecture from 3 books, only no-one knows which ones. I was trying to think about being responsible for your own interests. At the heart of this research these images relate to the idea of the self as it is revealed through the ‘stuff’ we collect and how this is then translated into the visual plane of painting.
