Doodle Pip has a philosophy of art quite unlike any other artist working either today or in the past. As a portraitist like Rembrandt, Warhol or Murillo they are interested in creating works based on clients. But there the similarity ends.
If my picture looks too much like the sitter, I start again. I want to convey nothing of the subject.
Doodle Pip, portraitist
Doodle Pip creates unique works that – at their best – look nothing like the sitter. If the sitter can be recognised then they feel that their work has failed.
“There is a wonderful freedom to Pip’s work. It is the biggest step forward in fine art since the invention of egg tempura. To have thrown out completely any attempt at verisimilitude is to have thrown out art history. Pip reminds us of what art was like before art was art. I have a picture of my husband by Pip and it looks nothing like him. We couldn’t be more pleased; it is our favourite work in our collection and the only one I would save in a fire. And we have seven Botticellis and a Simone Serratio, so that is saying something.”
Walla Von Munchen, art critic and part-time fire-fighter (grade 3 – bungalows only)
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