Kate Moss Inspires Gary Hume, Caulfield Heads to the Bar

Gary Hume once told me that he was a caveman -- stuck in his cavern, attempting to paint the world outside. It was a neat way of saying that the problems of painting haven’t really changed much in 40,000 years.

Just as in the days of Lascaux, it’s still a matter of making a flat image, with pigments, of a wide and complicated world. The trick is to find a way that feels fresh.