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12 x 16 in ($95)
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Embark on an exclusive opportunity to acquire a world-class scrape painting, marrying texture, color, and a meticulous scrape process at an entry-level price. This masterpiece boasts impeccable provenance, enhancing not only your initial investment but promising boundless pleasure. Watkins, the artist, has earned acclaim with his work adorning the private collections of writers, thinkers, performers, and creatives globally. As a world-renowned intellectual with a substantial following, his pieces have historically found homes through word-of-mouth within exclusive circles. Saatchi stands as the exclusive platform offering his canvases to the general collector. Each painting, signed and dated, comes with a special bonus—a complimentary 40x30cm acrylic on paper maquette, a preparatory work for the final version valued at $100. Crafted from multiple layers of acrylic paint applied over extended periods, some spanning years, these canvases unveil Watkins' distinctive approach to scrape painting. Employing hand-made paddles, squeegees, and tilers' notched tools, he introduces striped and checked effects in the initial layer, shaping the subsequent scraping process to yield textures and effects that are genuinely distinctive. The paint engages with the surface, birthing captivating jags, flurries, and cloudlike formations, often stemming from the aggressive scraping during intense wet-on-wet sessions. The end result is a surface marked by incredible complexity and subtlety, boasting captivating edges and a palpable sense of rhythm and harmony. Furthermore, Watkins' artistic technique draws inspiration from esteemed figures—Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Monet, and Turner—infusing an additional layer of artistic influence and depth into these exceptional pieces.
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:Black Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Art prints are packaged and shipped by our printing partner.
Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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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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