Henri
Rousseau (1844-1910), called 'le Douanier', was an amateur
painter.
Rousseau painted some unusually large and complicated pictures of fanciful subjects in a naive and strongly colourful style.
The tone and style of Rousseau's work is very distinctive and evocative. Andy's reference to "parrots and lemurs" in Wrapped In Grey is a subtle nod to the worlds captured by this artist.
