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Graffiti, Street Art, Wildsyle, Cornbread, Banksy, Daze, Dondi White, Lady Pink, Basquiat, Haring, Fairey, NFTs I was inspired to paint by wildstyle graffiti in street art which for me is the only original visual language of my age. In particular I am interested in how wildstyle moved towards a free, energetic and exciting abstraction. I decided to take the energy and gestures of wildstyle, remove the letters, and paint the graffiti rather than using spray paint. Each piece begins with very free gestural lines or ribbons following wildstyle motifs. Sometimes I will then scrape-wash the whole canvas, before using Posca pens to sharpen up the lines, intercut and connect. The process is a mixture of meticulous, careful composition, and explosive moments of freedom of gesturality and expressiveness in keeping with street art done on the fly. Making the forms with paint gives them a messier, more artisanal feel than the sharpness of spray paint. The drawn outlines bring a graphicality and design feel to the work. Although composed of lines, each canvas shows a single form or shape of impossible complexity, yet also of simplicity and harmony. It was using scraping back on these first works, that led me to my Richter-inspired later pieces. It also adds texture, and visual complexity when you get close to the piece. There is no doubting the energy of these pieces. Like the hip-hop culture which inspired them they are free, loose samples of other graffiti artists mixed together as a backing track for my own flow. Anyone who sees these pieces has to smile. They are audacious. It shouldn't work, but it just does. I think joy is a big part of the work as well. They are loud, raucous, rambunctious, like a great party. This is not art for the faint-hearted. They have big personalities.
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Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 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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