Each painting is of a full packet of crisps painted onto a pure white background. I enjoy painting food and I feel the work is a celebration of the everyday. Something we are all familiar with but really don't even notice. I hope that these pieces also raises questions about the nature of representation and reality, as the photorealistic style blurs the line between the actual and the depicted.

"The normal convention for still life paintings is to show the items of value as you would come across them in the house. That won’t be regularly arranged across a white ground, but Lisa Milroy has established that as an alternative mode using such items as shoes, fruit and ceramic pots. The effect is to animate items in their own space. Simon Taylor gives that a humorous and absurd tweak by choosing cheaply cheerful Wotsits as his subject."

Paul Carey-Kent