He painted portraits of Malcom McDowell (Clockwork Orange) for Stanley Kubrik, Zandra Rhodes, Marc Bolan…
Duggie Fields likes to live with his paintings, his favourite being the one he’s currently working on. This 50’s fetishist, in his 1995 “MAXIMALism” manifesto, confronts us with the (sur)reality of a perpetual media world.
His dayglo works where elements of disparate worlds meet may as well be the stained glass windows of some cathedral dedicated to modern media.
MAXIMALism ? Minimalism with a plus, plus, plus…