Years ago, the first painting I ever sold was a pop art rendering of a cooked 'full english' breakfast on a square canvas. It's become a subject I like to revisit every few years because of that early sale, to see how my technique has developed.

The painting features a bacon rasher, a sausage, beans in a pot, a tomato, mushrooms, and a hash brown, making its first appearance in my work.

In this new version, one of the major changes is that I didn't use my usual black outlines to separate the objects. Instead I used Posca paint pens to achieve the stark outlines needed for the pop art effect. The second is that the food is on a plate.

I love reducing this traditional meal to simple colours and shapes, and using a neat, graphic impact, rather than 3D realism. The end result is a painting that would brighten up any room, although it'd probably most at home in the kitchen or breakfast room.

Size -
8 inches x 8 inches
20 cm x 20 cm
Roughly 1.5 cm thick

I've been inspired to create work like this by classic pop artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Patrick Caulfield.