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Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0 D in
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"Revolutionising the Stripe" This work is part of a new series of full scale canvases by Watkin composed using his innovative crosshatch expressionism process. The result of close to a hundred experiments, studies and, of course, failures, the finalised process combines Watkin's interest in lineation, scraping, the use of paddles, crosshatching, texture and colour. The process involves carefully planned overlays of bands of colour applied with expressive paddle-work in the style of Richter, and then removed using various tilers' paddles to reveal, but also to modify, the stripes of colour below. This occurs over several days although the paint has to be repeatedly applied and removed while still wet, so each session can be an intense, trance-like experience. Hence the term crosshatch expressionism: a constructed grid painted with expressionist emotion. The result is complex, textural, rhythmical, highly detailed and yet, from a distance, harmonious and calm. The raised paint makes the piece tactile and sculptural with a combination of matt and gloss surfaces. This is a rare opportunity to own a major canvas of a new series by an emergent artist at an entry level price with very strong provenance which is certain to increase your initial investment while giving you immense pleasure in the meantime. Watkin’s work is already held in the private collections of writers, thinkers, performers and creatives all over the world. He is also a world-famous intellectual with a global following. He has historically sold by word of mouth through friends and contacts. Saatchi is currently the only platform where his canvases are available to the general collector.
Painting:Acrylic on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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William Watkin is a continental philosopher and theorist exploring his ideas on abstraction and indifference in paint. 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. William is a late-blooming, emergent artist whose works have only very recently come to market (May 2023), and have already been purchased by several notable writers, intellectuals and film makers. Inspired by Richter’s work Watkin uses various paddles and tools to create highly textured and rhythmically abraded surfaces onto which multiple, thick layers of paint are added over time and then removed repeatedly until the image is formed. The final pieces are astonishingly rich in intensity of colour, detail and are very tactile. There is a lot going on across the surface, but from a distance they attain a beauty and harmony that is absorbing and immersive. The inspiration of Turner, Monet, Rothko, Pollock and Richter is clear. But Watkin is also influenced by grids, crosshatching and weaving. His work shows signs of Durer, Mondrian, brutalist architecture, Polish kilims, tartan kilts, basketry, data systems and DNA. If you are interested in any of his pieces, he welcomes interaction with potential collectors. Email him with literally any questions on: william.watkin@gmail.com Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1970 William Watkin was an accomplished and obsessive drawer as a child but was encouraged to drop art at school, and concentrate on other more academic subjects by teachers and family. In a way this turned out for the best as Professor William Watkin is now one of the world's leading continental philosophers teaching at the cutting edge Brunel University in West London, author of numerous celebrated books and giving talks on philosophy and aesthetics all over the world. Although Prof. Watkin stopped drawing he remained fascinated by modern art. After finishing at Manchester University he fell in with the YBAs, hanging out with them in Hoxton Square, Brick Lane, The Coach and Horses and The French House in the early nineties. He left that scene behind as he moved to Poland and then Ireland, but art remained central to his academic work as he built his university career writing about New York School aesthetics.
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