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In the city Painting

William Watkin

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Paper

Size: 11.8 W x 15.7 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This is a unique opportunity to own a wold-class quality scrape painting at an entry level price with very strong provenance which is certain to increase your initial investment while giving you immense pleasure in the meantime. Watkin’s work is already held in the private collections of writers, thinkers, performers and creatives all over the world. He is also a world-famous intellectual with a global following. He has historically sold by word of mouth through friends and contacts. Saatchi is currently the only platform where his canvases are available to the general collector. The painting is signed and dated and ready for framing. These canvases are made from multiple layers of acrylic paint applied over long periods of time, in some cases years. I paint using hand-made paddles or squeegees. I also use tilers’ notched tools to create striped and checked effects. This application of an initial layer of stripes and grids impacts in the later scraped producing textures and effects I believe to be unique. Paint gets caught in troughs, pools in boxes, smears on edges, producing jags, flurries, and cloudlike formations. Often these effects are the result of aggressive scraping back of the paint during intense wet on wet sessions. The end results are surfaces of incredible complexity and subtlety, fascinating edges, and a sense of rhythm and harmony.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Acrylic on Paper

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

11.8 W x 15.7 H x 0.1 D in

SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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William Watkin, an Oxford/London-based abstract painter, was born in 1970 in Stoke-on-Trent in the North of England. He began painting in his late forties and only began to exhibit and sell his work in the spring of 2023. He is entirely self-taught. William is a well-known philosopher and theorist, and his painting practice carries on some of his innovative ideas around abstraction and perception in a more material, intuitive fashion. William’s work is dominated by bright colours, thick textural paint, intricate process, and abstract forms. 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. Yet, most of all, they are joyful, detailed, tactile, surprising, multi-hued explosions of paint, kept in check with the strict forms of stripes, crosshatches, lozenges, squares, diagonals, and the occasional circle. “My art reflects the two sides of my personality,” he says. “The logical side, stripes, process, panning, and the spontaneous side, expressiveness, gesture, freedom. That’s why I call my process crosshatch expressionism”. William has been painting for just over half a decade and his work only came to market in May 2023. Since then there has been great demand for his paintings, especially after his first solo show in May 2024 “Scrapes & Stripes” in the new art space “The Old Piggery” (Oxfordshire). During those first 12 months William sold over 300 pieces from tiny, but gorgeous, works on paper, to the new, large-scale crosshatch works which are selling globally as fast as he can make them. His work is already collected internationally in America, and Germany in particular, and is part of the private collection of several notable writers, thinkers and creative practitioners in the UK. People have been particularly fascinated with William’s innovative crosshatch expressionism process. Using scraping techniques, he learnt from watching videos of Gerhard Richter, he uses large paddles to add layers of stripes of paint in various thicknesses and in different directions. Then he uses notched paddles and other tools to scrape off, or cut, stripes of paint to reveal layers below.

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