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Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in
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This diptych combines two studies inspired by the hazy, blurred pastels of Odilon Redon's later works. The top image uses a cut away section of stripes perpendicular to the main form inspired by the American flag but specifically Jasper John's incredible takes on that form. Johns inspires the much dirtier, edgy, street feel of the other image but this is balanced by the top layer of light, pastel shades, The heavy scraping technique on the lower layer of both makes the colours diffuse, soften and bleed into each other in a way that is very unusual in acrylic and unique to my work. The lower image achieves powerful colour phasing as the eye travels from the dull flesh and grey on the lefty, through strong reds and blues which are then picked up by reds and aquamarine in the lower level. The effect is dreamy, mysterious, hard to fathom like Redon at his symbolic best. The painting finally fades into twilight colour schemes but the violent scrape at the bottom, gives the dream bit, the night a sense of threat. The top image takes the dirty stripes unique to my work to the furthest level. The geometric certainty of the stripes, is so broken up at times you forget the structure and get lost in the layers of paint and texture. If Redon had lived in Shoreditch this might have been how he would have painted.
Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
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William Watkin is a continental philosopher and theorist exploring his ideas on abstraction and indifference in paint. His canvases are intense and dynamic explorations of colour, gesture, surface, and texture through the use of stripes. His work is concerned with materiality, process, and thinking abstraction through geometric grids and complex colour combinations. William is a late-blooming, emergent artist whose works have only very recently come to market (May 2023), and have already been purchased by several notable writers, intellectuals and film makers. Inspired by Richter’s work Watkin uses various paddles and tools to create highly textured and rhythmically abraded surfaces onto which multiple, thick layers of paint are added over time and then removed repeatedly until the image is formed. The final pieces are astonishingly rich in intensity of colour, detail and are very tactile. There is a lot going on across the surface, but from a distance they attain a beauty and harmony that is absorbing and immersive. The inspiration of Turner, Monet, Rothko, Pollock and Richter is clear. But Watkin is also influenced by grids, crosshatching and weaving. His work shows signs of Durer, Mondrian, brutalist architecture, Polish kilims, tartan kilts, basketry, data systems and DNA. If you are interested in any of his pieces, he welcomes interaction with potential collectors. Email him with literally any questions on: william.watkin@gmail.com Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1970 William Watkin was an accomplished and obsessive drawer as a child but was encouraged to drop art at school, and concentrate on other more academic subjects by teachers and family. In a way this turned out for the best as Professor William Watkin is now one of the world's leading continental philosophers teaching at the cutting edge Brunel University in West London, author of numerous celebrated books and giving talks on philosophy and aesthetics all over the world. Although Prof. Watkin stopped drawing he remained fascinated by modern art. After finishing at Manchester University he fell in with the YBAs, hanging out with them in Hoxton Square, Brick Lane, The Coach and Horses and The French House in the early nineties. He left that scene behind as he moved to Poland and then Ireland, but art remained central to his academic work as he built his university career writing about New York School aesthetics.
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