Our new Artist of the week is Nick Pilatis. Nick was educated to the level of "Doctor of Philosophy" in Engineering Science....and he says of his work "the push for creative thinking and innovation constitute two of the major components of my character. The need of self-expression through oil paintings appeared rather unexpectedly in 2004 and the result was the painting of "Nike (Victory) and its many forms". Painting has now become an obsession of mine. Being self taught, I have been inspired by the brush strokes of Van Gogh, the concepts and shapes of Picasso, the expressionism of El Greco and romanticism of Delacroix. "
Of all Nick's figurative works , I think my favourite is the one shown - appropriately named "The Suffering". For me...the handling of colour, tone and the texture of the brush strokes all help to describe the feeling of the piece in what is essentially a very simple composition....very emotive.
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