Artists collection

There is a rich history of British artists looking to Scandinavian literature and landscapes for a sense of raw, unvarnished emotional truth (often driven by the concept of Nordic Noir or the melancholia found in Edvard Munch's paintings.

Furr says “I realised —Munch was a contemporary and friend of Knut Hamsun and when I set out to paint this I had just read ‘Hunger’ which is a masterpiece of modern psychological literature.
In his novel, a block of brunost, for a starving Hamsun character, wouldn't just be cheese; it would be an object of cosmic desire, agonizing temptation, and physical salvation. I am not sure it if his books are meant to be funny but I can’t help finding humour in them.
The thick, tactile impasto strokes I used, mimic the dense, fudge-like quality of the caramelized whey, rendering the object not just as dairy, but almost as a monument akin to a brown cheese ‘Kaaba’.
For me, my painting acts as an Anglo-Nordic artistic dialogue which reflects Hamsun's modernism. The strict, geometry of the brown cube forces a tension against my loose, brushwork of magenta in the background.
An ordinary piece of food becomes an existential modern exploration of the mind.