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Rupert Dixon B.A. (Hons.) trained at Cheltenham School of Art and lives and works in London. Fascinated by English country houses and stately homes since childhood, much of his recent work is inspired by the palaces, villas and yali’s of Istanbul. He admires the opulent idiom of the Russian, Venetian and Ottoman styles, and combines their sensibilities with his own innate taste.

Rupert has worked in the top end of London’s interior design world and he seeks to evoke “The mood of the room removed from its utility”. He has an almost Dickensian sense of light and darkness. Using the scale and grandeur of the subjects of his works he aims to evoke our sentiments and sense of loss for yesteryear.

His is an intentional mismatch of styles, and he borrows freely in a genre where paintings are overtly a canvas for his own imagination. What he does is to take many images of interiors that he likes; then he rips them up and combines them, recreates them as his own - empowered yet partly abstract. His is a mixed medium of gouache and emulsion. The texture is both matt and gloss, the work both finished and unfinished.

This leads us into rooms, corridors borrowing from other rooms, spaces and features juxtaposed, decoration that is almost literary. It is as if he had taken an image from a book and recreated how he would perceive it. In fact Rupert believes that his paintings are a descriptive illustration of his interior vision, that these works are imaginal. Certainly with stairs that go nowhere, too many of them, they are almost dreamlike.

The current series of paintings is called A State of Interiors.

A State of Interiors 7

mixed medium
46 by57

A State of Interiors 2

mixed medium
46 by57

A State of Interiors 1

mixed medium
46 by57

A State of Interiors 25

mixed medium
46 by57

A State of Interiors 14

mixed medium
38 by 47