Comments on: Staring at the Sun: Graham Nickson at Knoedler & Company https://artcritical.com/2011/10/12/graham-nickson/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: joan mcraney https://artcritical.com/2011/10/12/graham-nickson/#comment-31947 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:21:14 +0000 https://artcritical.com/?p=19507#comment-31947 In reply to Bill White.

I believe I have found my favorite contemporary painter.
“Tree of Birds” is a masterpiece.

]]> By: Bill White https://artcritical.com/2011/10/12/graham-nickson/#comment-10994 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:53:23 +0000 https://artcritical.com/?p=19507#comment-10994 It is Graham’s intensity, and persistence in searching the visible world that he brings to the translation of it into his paintings, which have the sense in which the images are both familiar and new. Graham Nickson has such integrity that it is evident in his work for these many decades now, and he is not less demanding on himself now than when he started his journey as a painter at Camberwell, and then the Academy in Rome. If one were to simply name the colors in his works, one would assume the work had to be completely “un-natural”, but the opposite is true. These rich and vivid hues become the “equivalents” of nature, translated into complex forms and spaces in a personal pictorial language. It is amazing to me that he has the energy to keep making such significant large scaled works when he has been devoting himself to keeping the New York Studio School alive and well. Under his leadership he has kept what its mission has ben since its founding by Mercedes Matter, and with the introduction of the marathons made something new without demeaning the past. I have the greatest admiration and respect for him as a painter and as a person, he is a model for me, to keep pushing on.

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