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What is your preferred medium and why?
Do you use more than one medium? Have
your preferences changed?
I like to use acrylics because they are great to
work with. They give vibrant colours which suit
my work perfectly, and they feel lovely as you
move the paint around – very sensuous!
Q4 .
You are renowned not only for your paintings
but also for your innovative presentation
style. Could you tell us a little about this.
Printing and presentation has come on in leaps
and bounds over the years that I have been
painting. I have always endeavoured to
experiment with new innovations and highly
developed techniques as they offer me an original
way of presenting my work - I look at every piece
and decide how best to represent the colours,
texture, atmosphere and impact. A great recent
example of this is in my latest collection of limited
editions. Into the Night and Morning Glory have
both been created using dye sublimation – an
extraordinary process during which solid dyes are
subjected to extreme heat, causing them to
vaporise and permeate the glossy surface of a
thin piece of aluminium before they return to solid
form. Because the colour infuses the metal, you
get superbly vibrant colours and a lustrous finish
which I am delighted with.
Q5 .
Does your personality come across in your paintings - if so how?
Nice paintings - nice guy?! My paintings are full of energy but I think they also
have a calmness about them which sums me up really!
Q 6 .
Duncan’s original paintings and signed limited editions can be viewed
at Whitewall Galleries in over 40 locations throughout the UK. Find
your nearest gallery or view more of his collection online at
What do you want people to take away from your paintings?
I feel very strongly that whatever my work means to me is deeply personal,
and by extension, this is also true of the people who are looking at it. Everyone
has their own response to art, and when I meet collectors they often surprise
me when they tell me what they see in one of my paintings. I don’t believe in
explaining my work or guiding people around it, as I think it is what you see
that is important – and often, the more you look, the more you see.
Q 7 .