My wife asked me to do a picture kind of like this as a present for somebody who's leaving the town. (Don't tell her until after 26th!) Luckily I'd already got something not entirely different planned. It was just a case of changing the central figure. I can now use that figure in a different location. That's the plan, anyway.
I'd remembered some paintings I'd done when I was about 17, largely based on/inspired by Utrillo. I liked his Montmartre street scenes and felt he was right to include people (though, admittedly he was not very good at them). So I did a couple of Parisian street senes with people in them, though people from the 1970s, including, I remember, my Latin teacher. So people were a key element of my "artistic practice" even then.
Looking at this print having completed it, I can see something of Diether Kressel's woodcuts in their sheer crudity and jumbliness. It's definitely got the kind of vibe I was going for.
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