African & Caribbean Food

** As featured in Sharon Horgan's series "Youth" on HBO and Now TV. ** This is a painting of a shop on Deptford High Street, where I live in London. I was interested in finding fresh tactile and sensual ways of evoking the seafood and meat on display. Also the feeling of the shop as a being like a theatre and the interaction of the shoppers. The colour in the painting is strongly affected throughout by the intense pink glow of the interior lights, which draws in the eye from the cold wet street outside. From a digital image it's not easy to see the variation of very thinly brushed and scribbled paint, with slabs of colour applied with a palette knife and thick swabs of thick crinkly paint on the clothes of the shoppers