Wilkerson Fine Art and Consulting

"All Nature is but art, unknown to thee, all chance, direction which thou canst not see…" - Alexander Pope.

Standing in a meadow, my five senses satiated by all that nature brings including brilliant color, peaceful sounds, ever changing light and temperature, my soul is replenished and invigorated. I lay out my palette of oil colors based on a combination of what I see and feel. My first step is to stain my canvas with a warm hue, a color that will provide a rich base for the strokes to follow. I paint from thin to thick, my broken strokes first applied with a brush, then palette knife. As the painting progresses, I look less at my subject, listen less to my intellect, and allow the sometimes chaotic brushwork to take over. Sometimes my strokes become too chaotic and the painting loses itself. Other times, I am too tight and the painting dies. But when the painting takes a life of it's own, often surprising me, I have made a connection with the moment and instinct prevails.