Posts by Nicholas Wilton

I am coming to the end of an enormous amount of art making. I have produced about 25 paintings in the last 5 months and soon they will all be picked up from my studio for a month long exhibition at Caldwell Snyder Gallery opening Thursday, June 5th. For months I imagined how great it…

This is watercolor is of me standing outside the Art Studio at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, California.  I took a break from teaching the ArtLife workshop to see the beautiful afternoon light hitting the Sonoma hills. My friend Wendy took a photo and then from this made a watercolor. I love how this watercolor painting…

I came across these amazing photographs of mushrooms by Steve Axford, a photographer living in Australia. What astonishes me is that even though I have been alive over 50 years there is still so much to see. Just peering into this world of mushrooms fills me with wonder. The colors, textures, the forms are to…

Detail from “Berkeley No. 33″ by Richard Diebenkorn, oil on canvas, 24″ x 29”, 1955   Even though I have spent since January painting it has really been in the past 4-6 weeks that I have done most of the work. Things have finally gotten easier. Paintings tend to almost make themselves now. After months…

Here is a 25x magnified drop of seawater, photographed by David Liittschwager. When I look at this it reminds me of abstract painting. Something is defined as abstract when it is “apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.” We look at this photo of the water teeming with life and oddly this somehow…

Generally we think things have a beginning, middle and an end. Movies are like this, stories, instructions, cookbooks, the lives of our pets, and I guess our lives too. But lately I have been realizing that art making doesn’t always follow this pattern. Ideas, inspiration, and bursts of creativity manifest things that don’t necessarily make…