My favourite painting Jeremy Swift
Jeremy Swift is an actor, who recently won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in Apple TV+’S Ted Lasso. He also starred in Downton Abbey and The Durrells
A couple of years ago, I was walking through Venice with my wife, when I spotted an art gallery and instantly shouted out “It’s that guy, the 3D man!” It jumps out at you that much. At that time, the gallery was exclusively exhibiting Patrick Hughes’s work. We ended up buying an artist’s proof of Poppish, which shows a gallery of some of his favourite artists, including Damien Hirst and David Hockney. For the past few decades, his work has almost always centred on themes such as this or what he’s dubbed “reverspectives”. He hand-paints with archival inkjet onto a three-dimensional surface. Usually, what he paints onto the most prominent part of the surface is, in fact, the bit that looks furthest away in the final work. It’s a brilliant visual deceit. If you sway from side to side when looking at it, the whole picture moves