Posts by Nicholas Wilton

My art was a delightful escape when I was a child. Creating pictures allowed me to create a new place, an alternative world, in addition to my regular life. It was so much fun that I got hooked early on. Over the years, if you go back to that place enough, if you revisit the…

The sound of rain wakes me from sleep. Finally it is here. The water running down the metal drainpipe, the thin drumming on the roof above me, the light patter of drips upon the windowsill slightly disorientates me. It has been so long since it has rained. The sounds, the quality of the air is,…

Today I was supposed to leave the studio at a specific time but just before walking out, I saw something on a painting that I just had to fix. It took a couple of minutes. Now I am sitting here after coming home 4 hours early to meet the cable television guy who was supposed…

I recently posted a painting on Facebook. It was one of those posts that you kind of cringe as you post because it was in a stage that I didn’t like. I had a tough time with this painting and at the end of the day I pretty much had just a big grey mess.…

I was just visiting my father, who is an artist, in Ashland, Oregon. He mentioned that because of some health reasons he had stopped painting. It had been a few months. I asked him if he missed it and he said he did but, at the same time, he reasoned that because you get older…

This week I have been working on several paintings that are mostly black and white. Interestingly what I have learned or rather relearned has to do with color. In the beginning of making a painting I am not thinking too much about color. I tend to think more in black and white – making decisions…