Provenance: Rachael McCully & Jordy Kerwick: “Me & You & You & You”, Andenken Gallery, Amsterdam, 2019, ill. full page in the exhibition catalogue. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

Immediate and straightforward. This is how the soon-to-be-40-year-old Jordy Kerwick's colourful and somewhat naively painted still lifes and representations of tigers and snakes might appear. The self-taught Australian artist makes no secret of the fact that he draws much of his inspiration from his daily life, which he shares with his wife and artist colleague Ces McCully and the couple's two children in the south of France. Like several of the CoBrA artists, the rising artist mentions his children as his primary source of inspiration. Kerwick started painting after feeling stressed for a long period, and since then he has reportedly not let go of the brushes – driven by an immediate joy of painting and experimenting with materiality and textures. Jordy Kerwick has participated in several group exhibitions in Munich, Cologne, Sydney and Denmark. His international breakthrough truly came about when leading art collectors spotted his work, and today he is represented in leading galleries all over the world.