Brian Sayers paints remarkable still life paintings that are often cluttered with all manner of everyday objects and implements. In this episode, he talks about how he got into The Slade art school and meeting Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, the difficulties of finding a “style”, teaching at Eton College to help earn a living, what influenced his well-known table-top still life works, how he plans them, what they mean to him and in what direction his paintings might be heading.

Brian Sayers talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Spiritualized, 2010

Diana, 1987

Camouflage

All images are © Brian Sayers

In Plain Sight is showing at Long and Ryle until 20th June 2025

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