Igor Moritz, Ruby Red, 2019

Monday musing… Polish painter Igor Moritz describes “uncertainty” and “anticipation” as the key emotions at play in his brightly coloured figurative works, depicting men and women in contemporary domestic settings. Moritz’s expressionistic paintings are especially relatable at this moment in time, as demonstrated in this crimson-tinged portrait. His sitters usually appear cosy and contemplative, but the emotive rather than naturalistic use of colour, evocative of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, lends a potent, otherworldly strangeness to the scenes.