PETER DOIG (B. 1959)

“I often use heightened colours to create a sense of the experience or mood or feeling of being there, but it’s not a scientific process. I think the paintings always refer back to a reality that we all have experience of. We have all seen incredible sunsets. We’ve all experienced the sensation of light dropping and producing strange natural effects, and I think in a way I am using these natural phenomena and amplifying them through the materiality of paint and the activity of painting... When I was making the ‘snow’ paintings I was looking a lot at Monet, where there is this incredibly extreme, apparently exaggerated use of colour.” (P. DOIG, quoted in ‘Peter Doig: Twenty Questions (extract), 2001’, in A. Searle et al. (eds.), Peter Doig, London 2007, p. 132)