Ian cairnie,one the more imaginatif trompe l’oeil artists, admits that he goes to pieces if he is not given a stylistic framework. He can paint a brilliant pastiche of a claude lorraine landscape or a dutch flower painting in a few days. But, in his words, if you asked me to paint something in my knowing where to begin. I need to be given a style in which to paint.
Many decorative painters admit to fantasies about how they would like their own homes to look, but this transformation rarely takes place. Lack of time is one excuse. Then there is the curse of sheer perfectionist, which comes of producing work to the highest standards in luxurious and beautiful surroundings, i’m such a perfectionist, says stenciller mary maccarthy, the owner of a small, pretty cottage in norfolk, that everything has to be exactly right or i can’t live with it. So i look at blank walls and tell myself how wonderful it will be when i finally get round to it.
Like mary maccarthy, i find it hard not to give a guilty start and become apologrtic when i am asked if my house is covered from top to toe ‘with all those wonderful painted finises you write about’. Seeing, analysing, and writing about so much excellent decorative work makes it easy to become over-critical, and to mindful of all the shortcomings (unfinished areas, ideas that need further development) to take in the overall effect of your own home. But, when i suddenly see my place with new eyes, i realize all over again that it has a special atmosphere, a look of its own, and that this is due more than anyting else to colour and pattern achieved with paint.
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