Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. . Peter Doig (b. 1959, Edinburgh) is a figurative painter whose narrative works draw upon found photographs, movie scenes, album covers, and the famous paintings of Edvard Munch and Gustav Klimt. At the start of his career, Doig’s paintings were casted off as being outdated due to their traditional method of figuration. However, his art had a mystical and dreamlike quality that singularized his paintings among his contemporaries and earned him the prestigious Whitechapel Art Prize in 1991. Doig’s mysterious landscapes and hallucinatory images diverge from the figurative paintings of the past in that they are an amalgamation of several pictures and use photographs only as references instead of primary sources. “...I started photographing pictures I’d seen in magazines...and trying out different compositions…,” Doig explains. “It just felt so totally liberating...to move t...