I am familiar with Carl Kleiner's work from studying him briefly last year when looking at his 'Homemade is best' series for IKEA. Today in our group crit Matt mentioned him again to look into for inspiration for the still life aspect of my new work. I really like the bright colours and the way he almost has created a set for the bags featured in the wall street journal. I want to step up my still life game and try and create a kind of set around my pieces, and I like the possibility of including parts of a model in the shot too.

Kleiner's work is never too complicated; either his compositions are usually very simple, but it is the subject matter which is incredibly clever, or the other way round where he creates large scale sets with simple subject matter very effectively.