The works are richly layered, complex, at turns colourful and dark, with a vast amount of energy churning beneath their beautiful surfaces. In reality, Wolfgramm’s fast-living art does not imitate his life. It has taken rigid self-discipline to produce the huge canvases for the new show. The self-taught painter is a father of one, with another child due any day, who sets the alarm for 4am “so I can spend three hours painting before I go to work.”

“This is the first show where I’ve really thought it is going to be difficult to let the work go, because of the sheer effort that has gone into them.”