De Pictura: Journeys Through Painting

This article addresses validity in the context of what I do as an artist, questioning the way in which we encounter paintings in a digital context compared with the experience of looking at paintings themselves. The digital is quite different to the physical tangibility of a painting. Yet this difference is now increasingly misperceived by the ready accessibility the internet offers, the pervasive nature of digital content in our lives, and with the ever-developing capabilities of virtual reality (VR) and haptic technologies.