Dan Proops has his third one man show, Sam’s Desktop III in May at The Empire Gallery in Vyner Street E2. Dan paints oil on canvas and is an Honours graduate from Goldsmiths. He has shown at Art Brussels and The London Art Fair. His work relates to American pop art; he paints with the stylistic influences of the iconic classical painters such as Vermeer and Ingres but with the humour and ideology of artists such as Lichtenstein and Warhol.

Microsoft were so impressed by his “Windows Painting Downloading” they featured it in their Design IT art exhibition last year in Cork Street where Dan was also on a panel discussing the marriage between art and technology.

What is your most marked characteristic?
My freckles.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
One man show at a London gallery at 14 years old.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sipping whisky, Listening to Bowie while painting.

What is your most treasured possession?
My brushes.

Where would you like to live?
London. Best city in the world - would never want to leave...

What is your greatest fear?
Losing my studio keys.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
My ability to talk to beautiful women...

What is your greatest extravagance?
Oil paint (it’s so expensive!), Glenfiddich, late nights at the Groucho Club.

What is your favorite journey?
Taking my motorbike down the Embankment to the studio on a sunny morning.

What is it that you most dislike?
Being late, asking for a girls number, waiting.

What is the quality you most like in others?
Generosity, kindness and huge art buying wealth.

What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty and putting up with me.

Who are your heroes?
Laurel and Hardy, Ingres, Lou Reed.

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ability not to be a perfectionist.

How would you like to die?
Having sex with a beautiful woman surrounded by my paintings.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
Myself.

What is your present state of mind?
Racked with self confidence, general anxiety and a strange sense of calm.

What is your motto?
Gamble, drink, drive fast, work hard.