Interview: Roy Oxlade
Marcus Reichert, Artcritical
November 2003
There is of course always idle speculation on the state of painting as it might relate to the cultural vacuum. One cannot dismiss the fact that painting provides an entertainment for the masses, as do all the other mutant forms of so-called fine art. But its popularity at any given moment is certainly irrelevant. Would you agree that there are essentially two kinds of painting: painting that responds to the world and painstakingly embraces it, and painting that conjures up a world of its own and reflectively embraces itself? […]