by Nicholas Wilton | Jun 5, 2014 |
Artists and Careers in Art Limiting Beliefs #1 You will be a starving artist. #2 You will not be successful till you have died, and even then this is unlikely. #3 You are a reclusive, uncommunicative person who generally stays inside. #4 A lifetime of angst is a...
by Nicholas Wilton | May 29, 2014 |
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...
by Nicholas Wilton | May 22, 2014 |
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...
by Nicholas Wilton | May 15, 2014 |
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...
by Nicholas Wilton | May 8, 2014 |
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...
by Nicholas Wilton | May 1, 2014 |
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...
