Inside artist Ben Johnson’s studio

Working and creating within boundaries is intrinsic to art. A writer uses paper and pen to awaken our senses (i.e. smell, hear, feel), a poet needs to fit the words into a row no longer than a few words, and a painter needs to reduce reality to two dimensions. And that’s why Ben Johnson’s work is admirable. You almost want to step inside his pictures and wonder around…
In the below video he ‘takes us on a tour of his Hammersmith studio, where he creates his haunting, half-real and half-imagined interiors and cityscapes’. (wallpaper)

The British artist is most famous of his city landscapes, mainly that of Liverpool (see how that one was created here) that took 11 assistants, 24,000 hours to complete.