A conversation with Ben Hope, an Oxonian figurative painter currently practicing in London. Hope utilizes various procedures, but iconically, his plein air work captures a frenzy of observations spanning scales and dimensions - from the hue of a particular seasonal lighting that must be returned to the following year, to the impression of a darting passer-by. Hope, inspired by great English artists, such as JMW Turner, has developed an application of kineticism and abrasion - ransacking his surfaces with marks.