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Revolutionizing the Art of Stripes" A rare chance to own one of the very popular "Dirty Pastels" series which tend to sell out within a short period of time. This is the very first using a new pastel colour scheme developed by Watkin over several weeks in response to collectors' requests and the inspiration of Monet and impressionism. The painting is quite simply lovely, calming, complex, and peaceful. When the changing light hits those raised edges reflect light, cast shadows, and the whole piece changes colour and mood. This piece is a part of Watkin's latest collection of expansive canvases, employing his groundbreaking crosshatch expressionism technique. The outcome of nearly a hundred experiments, studies, and inevitable setbacks, the finalized process amalgamates Watkin's passion for lineation, scraping, the use of paddles, crosshatching, texture, and color. The method entails meticulously planned overlays of expressive paddle-applied bands of color, echoing Richter's style. Subsequently, these layers are removed using various tilers' paddles, unveiling and altering the underlying stripes of color. This intricate process unfolds over several days, demanding the repeated application and removal of wet paint, turning each session into an intense, almost trance-like experience. The elevated paint surface imparts a tactile and sculptural quality, blending matte and gloss finishes. The work is on unstretched polyester canvas for extra durability and reduced cost. Shipping in a tube passes on a saving to the collector of $90 much less than the cost of stretching. This makes the work accessible to all collectors with all budgets
2024
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16 W x 20 H x 1.25 D in
17.75 W x 21.75 H x 1.25 D in
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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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