Jan Worst’s paintings portray stately and lavish interiors, focusing on ornamental details such as the tapestries, gilded mouldings, glittering chandeliers, antiquities, elaborate table settings and imposing libraries of these historic, presumably European, grand homes.

There is a deliberate ambiguity to Worst’s paintings that he has sustained throughout his entire oeuvre. Worst’s paintings challenge viewers while allowing us to savour their opulence and richness of detail, all perhaps a meditation on human desire. This catalog was published on occassion of the exhibition, 'Jan Worst: Paintings 1988-2008' at Sperone Westwater.