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A portrait of James Joyce was finished after the Artist said: "I kept on repeatedly visiting the Tate Modern in London just to see this primitive painting by Robert Motherwell called 'Ulysses' and for me it became a huge influence in feeling - I wanted to capture the essence of how I felt about James Joyce as an influence." The Artist then decided to do this by use of house paint - "In order to capture the sophisticated primitivism of Joyce and the childlike playfulness having just finished reading Dubliners."