August 31, 2009

Studio Work

I have been working on several large paintings. These are on canvas which is new for me as I usually work on panels. The wood panels when over 5 or 6 ft get very heavy. I also have been using two up turned 10 gallon buckets on the floor to prop up my paintings while working on them. It puts them at a good height for me to work and the slight angle makes it a bit easier as opposed to being perfectly flat against the wall. So simple. Lately I have been so busy with trying to fit everything in that when I come across something that is so simple and easy I am especially appreciative of it. The same idea has been happening in my painting. Simplification. I am trying to show the paint’s own character more and less of the heavy handedness of my own agenda. The clue to this idea comes every day when I am painting. Every time a drip of paint falls off my brush by accident it seem to land in the perfect place in the painting and actually make it significantly better. How can this be? 



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7 Comments

  1. Ian MacLeod on September 1, 2009 at 1:21 am

    It sounds like spiritual energy – freeing up and letting it happen.



  2. Kim Davies on September 2, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    Ahh, Nicholas…a man after my own heart – it’s the 1950’s Action Painting phenomenon! : ) Thank God for Pollock, Frankenthaler and the like. The sub-conscious is a beatiful thing to find exposed in your work. The paint itself has a language of it’s own. Keep painting! Fabulous.



  3. Nicholas Wilton on September 4, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    Thanks- I know the paint when applied freely just looks better- it just amazes me that it does-I love the play between out of control and in control—you can’t let the paint know you are actually controlling it-Ha!



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Nicholas Wilton

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Nicholas Wilton
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