David Hancock is a realist painter from Manchester. He is one of my favourite artists as I love his painting style, I think that he is extraordinarily talented, you have to look closely to realize the images are paintings rather than photographs. I think that it is clear that he likes to use his own friends as models and paints them in surroundings that have been personalized by the subject such as their own bedroom or kitchen. This is effective because the viewer really gets an insight into the model’s personality. I have been inspired by Hancock in the past in my own work as I did a project on my friends using their own bedrooms as backdrops to really get a feeling for their personal space and how they have incorporated their personality into the way that they decorated their room.
I think that it’s hard for photographers and painters to get inspiration from one another because with painting it takes so much skill and patience to create a good image that it renders the subject matter less important to some extent. A photograph of a person that has been captured well may not necessarily be remarkable but the same image when painted then becomes more impressive because more skill and effort has been exercised. It is easier to draw inspiration from Hancock as a photographer because the paintings are so photo-realistic so the skills required are easier to re-contextualise into the field of photography, than say, a more abstract piece of art.
Image: http://www.david-hancock.com
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