Sophie Painting

What is important? Force. – No, my dear! More, so much more. My word! Influence! DeReK’s work animates our individual jostling with just that: the everyday pressures of place and space (re: Sophie) and at times, the mosquitoes and their malaria (re: Edward). This is all measured in an illustrative style that evokes the mind’s wanderings in ethereal things. So much so, we are left with that more deflating of reflections: Oh, no! Am I just a drama queen? DeReK has been active for a number years from his studio outside of Nagoya, Japan. He works predominately in acrylic on linen and paper. Influence and admiration span the cleanliness of Ingres’ lines, Degas and Cassatt’s Impressionism, Schiele’s pornographic boldness — through to Bernard Buffet’s line work and John Currin’s Rockwellian sex.