Posts by Nicholas Wilton

It is July fourth and it just makes me think of red white and blue. This color combination is one of the only ones I don’t particularly like. I don’t exactly know why. I think it’s because this color combination is no longer available to mean anything other than the USA. If I want that…

Lately I have been noticing that much of the head space I need to be in while making my art is one that is comfortable with making mistakes. The search that goes into making art is an essential ingredient. Work that is born out of plenty of mistakes and corrections, at least in my experience,…

I don’t know what to write about. I am not sure what to paint. When I feel this way I just admit it and sit here… And wait. OK, what am I feeling? There must be something? I feel  emptiness. Openness perhaps. Surely that feels better than emptiness. What feels open? When I think of…

About 10 years ago I had an art show in Santa Fe. The gallery decided to take an ad out in Art News magazine to publicize the show. I thought long and hard about which painting I wanted in the ad as I knew that the whole show was riding on the this single image.…

Art is a reflection of who you are. This makes it both compelling and at the same time kind of nauseating. Although most people, and I am certainly in this camp, find the subject of themselves pretty interesting. If you ever don’t know what to say to someone, my Father always said, just ask them an…

There is something amazing that happens when you become clear about what you want… You often get it. Sometimes it’s hard to discern this phenomenon in life.  So many things are happening at once that it becomes difficult to remember why something shifts.  Perhaps years later you realize that things did turn out in a…