Neil Wilkins

laminae/Re:36

Inspired by: Howard John Besnia, Persis Harold Edgerton, Milkdrop Coronet

encaustic with mixed media on birch panel

36″ x 12″

2022

$1,200

This work speaks to the tonal qualities, color palette, circular forms and ephemeral nature in Harold Edgerton’s “Milkdrop Coronet” and also shares a kinship with the nature of pattern and material texture emphasized in “Persis” by Howard John Besnia. My encaustic paintings explore the nature of boundaries and time. I study relationships between shapes and patterns being altered by relative proximity as they flow across a picture plane. The works present impermanent elusive qualities that symbolize passing moments and act as physical representations of transition.

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Neil Wilkins

laminae/Re:23

encaustic mixed media on birch panel

8″ x 8″

2018

This series of work explores the nature of boundaries: how relationships between objects and shapes become defined and altered by proximity as they flow across a picture plane. They present impermanent elusive qualities that symbolize passing moments and act as physical representations of transition. They inhabit space where change is not sudden or abrupt. The unhurried fluid motion drifts, emphasizing new relations and possibilities. Working in layers of wax and a variety of mixed media, I fuse the materials into rhythmic impressions and create new visual associations in each piece.

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