by Nicholas Wilton | Apr 15, 2015 |
Pema Chodrun speaks and teaches extensively on Buddhism and becoming more conscious in our lives. She teaches that in order to live fully we should try to “experience each moment as completely new and fresh.” This teaching resonates with me. I see this idea, however,...
by Nicholas Wilton | Apr 8, 2015 |
Recently I found the most beautiful green I have ever seen. I didn’t find it by mixing paint, nor did I find it in another artist’s work. I found it, quite by accident, at a cooking class in a pot of simmering pea soup. I had never made pea soup by shelling all the...
by Nicholas Wilton | Apr 1, 2015 |
People ask me where the ideas come from that I write about and I tell them they come mostly from my Art Practice. These thoughts arrive while I am standing in front of my paintings. But they also just come from my life. This makes sense because, as most of you already...
by Nicholas Wilton | Mar 26, 2015 |
I am right smack dab in the middle of a big pile of paintings for a new show in June. I have been working hard for several months. Fifty percent of my time has already been used up. Many paintings are started, but none are finished. How this body of work is going to...
by Nicholas Wilton | Mar 18, 2015 |
Pema Chodrun eloquently spoke of three primary teachings found in Tibetan Buddhism. Even though I am only mildly familiar with the basic tenants of Buddhism, oddly, the primary points she was making I innately understood already. I was familiar – not because I have...
