Perkins’s earliest influence is 19th century classic romantic painting, and he drew inspiration from painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner and Frederic Edwin Church and the way they handle atmosphere, luminosity and color, transporting the viewer to a space of reflection and reverie. Geometry, too, has been a source of inspiration, with compositions striking a balance between the organic and the mathematical. Perkins sees these as playful hybrids that are both structured and fluid. Generally working on panels with oil paint, switching to working with acrylics on paper for a specific series introduced him to new ways of thinking about surface and realizing a finished image, something which he is able to continue exploring through this collaboration with the Art to Wear collection. “The silk project is such a lovely idea; the scarf and painting marry so well,” says Perkins. “A scarf is something that people will use and shape around themselves so it exists in the world. Having it move through the world in real time is so different to the way painting works[... ] and a beautiful marriage of form and function.”. For this collection, the characteristic lightness and delicacy of silk offered him the ideal medium to break free of certain barriers and explore volumes, light and color from a new angle. His most recent body of work, Passages, comprises works with an architectural structure that play with notions of space, crossing and thresholds, bathed in a light and airy glow that engages the viewer's perception.

Perkins’s earliest influence is 19th century classic romantic painting, and he drew inspiration from painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner and Frederic Edwin Church and the way they handle atmosphere, luminosity and color, transporting the viewer to a space of reflection and reverie. Geometry, too, has been a source of inspiration, with compositions striking a balance between the organic and the mathematical. Perkins sees these as playful hybrids that are both structured and fluid. Generally working on panels with oil paint, switching to working with acrylics on paper for a specific series introduced him to new ways of thinking about surface and realizing a finished image, something which he is able to continue exploring through this collaboration with the Art to Wear collection. “The silk project is such a lovely idea; the scarf and painting marry so well,” says Perkins. “A scarf is something that people will use and shape around themselves so it exists in the world. Having it move through the world in real time is so different to the way painting works[... ] and a beautiful marriage of form and function.”. For this collection, the characteristic lightness and delicacy of silk offered him the ideal medium to break free of certain barriers and explore volumes, light and color from a new angle. His most recent body of work, Passages, comprises works with an architectural structure that play with notions of space, crossing and thresholds, bathed in a light and airy glow that engages the viewer's perception.