Ben Edmunds

122 x 118 cm
 

This work combines colours, patterns and objects found in The Bicycle Shop, Norwich and aims to promote independent coffee shops and support 'coffee shop lifestyle' in a time of austerity. By doing this, it resists the domination of

the market by large chain cafés. I aimed to capture the quirky, chaotic atmosphere of my favourite independent outlet, with waitresses weaving round houseplants amongst an amalgam of patterned wallpaper and vibrant colours to help you out with French Scrabble. My interested in the formal arrangement of the picture plane points me towards still life and its compositional flexibility