This picture was created for my final degree project. After studying George Seurat for my dissertation, I decided to make a modern day version of his most famous painting, A Sunday Aftenoon on the Island of Grande Jatte.

To read about Seurat and this picure click Here

My plan was to find the spot in Paris from where Seurat painted this picture and paint whatever I found there at this time. What had changed? What would Seurat see if he were to paint this picture now, 125 years later?

I went to Paris and found the spot by matching pictures of the original with the current landscape, and recorded my findings as planned. On return I found out the the hole punch was invented the year he completed his painting in 1886, and he painted in dots, I found that too juicy to ignore. After not being able to find anyone using this technique, I decided to make the picture out of dots from a hole punch. Seurat took two years to paint his picture but my degree show was less than 5 months away.

I calculated if I worked 14-17 hours every day then I could have it finished in time. And I did.

I kept a blog as I made it and it can be found here.

I received a lot of press interest in this piece including an invite to appear on Richard and Judy, appearing in local/national and international newspapers, and was even on the news in Russia!

This piece also appeared on the BBC news alongside my Lewis Hamilton Portrait.

A few years later I was awarded a World Record by the Guinness Book of Records.