‘Funfair, Hampstead Heath, 1970s’ (2012), Oil on linen, 70 x 100 cm  2012

Like most British people I have attended funfairs since I was a small child. They are an intriguing aspect of popular culture - an older form of people’s pleasure persisting into the corporate age of mass media and the mass culture industries. This painting with a self-portrait recalls my last visit to a fair, which took place in London during the 1970s. At that time I liv...