Gilpin is a Northern Irish painter who resides in Hertfordshire, England. In recent years he has developed a series of graphic interiors composed of bold flat colours and loose lines, occasionally featuring sketchbook characters scaled to fit.

This series began life as a simple attempt to transfer figurative line drawings from sketchbooks onto large-canvas format. Gilpin experimented by adding colour, and he soon became intrigued by the possibilities of angles and cornered spaces and would sketch his bedroom, other rooms in his house, as well as finding inspiration from hotel rooms from the 1950s and 1970s for their geometric composition and interior design.