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PAINTING DIARY

November 21, 2014 By Nigel Ellis

 

This will be added to on an occasional basis, with posts from my ongoing Painting Diary.

The right hand column shows some ongoing works that are all unfinished and untitled, at interesting stages that I have photographed for my own records, before they become overpainted.

 

Filed Under: On Going

« Paint Layers

“Nigel Ellis’ works are well rooted in the ancient tradition and yet are like flowers that have opened this morning.”
- George Mackay Brown

Nigel Ellis’ interpretations of his own drawings have become increasingly free and inventive. His mantra whilst working has been ‘closer, closer, closer’ as he focuses in on the elements of his subjects.

This has resulted in an amplitude of gesture, a rich new freedom of translation….. at once dispensing and concealing meaning through subtle brushwork.
- Andrew Lambirth
Art Critic of the Spectator & Author

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