Neil Plotkin interviews London-based painter Robert Dukes. Dukes discusses his life and work including his time in art school and painting after the old masters. He also discusses a hiatus from, and return to, painting through "the painting of a coffee mug (1998)… Finally, a realised image as opposed to the gestural paintings I’d been producing…"

Robert Dukes Paintings and Drawings will be on view at Browse & Darby, London from May 11 – June 3, 2011.