Jude Rae: 5 x 6

For me a still-life painting is about the nexus between painting and visual perception. I think of the still life studio as a kind of laboratory where I can consider this relationship under quiet and relatively consistent conditions. I experience painting as an extremely refined sensual practice that is ideally suited to examining the haptic aspects of visual experience: what it feels like to see. I am always astonished to find that something of this can be communicated in paint, but it is also my experience that such subtle communications are more likely to succeed when the habitual expectations and...