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“Nathan Walsh belongs to a new generation of artists who are extending the boundaries of realist painting. His paintings demonstrate an ambitious project of combining photographic source material with the traditional skills of the representational artist. This is not easy painting but the bracing clarity of his work and the satisfaction in spending time with it shows a significant achievement.” Clive Head.
Nathan Walsh was born in Lincoln in 1972. He studied at the Liverpool School of Art before completing his Masters Degree at the University of Hull.
Dealing exclusively with the urban landscape, Walsh’s work is a complex construction that draws on many influences, including American Precisionism, the aesthetics of place and the importance of the history of art. His work is an expression of often highly personal experiences of particular times and specific places. The quality of the works lies not only in their great technical skill but in Walsh’s ability to universalise his experiences to give them wider resonance.
He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, Lambeth Palace and Eton College. Recently he has had hugely successful shows in London, California and Zurich. His work can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
“Perhaps the first thing to say about Nathan Walsh’s astonishing photorealist cityscapes is that, for all the seeming influence of photography in their making, it is, paradoxically, their distance from that medium which makes them into interesting paintings. Walking the streets, making complex perspectival drawings that subtly adjust space to make a good picture, a knowledge of art history, Bonnington in particular – Walsh uses all these means to arrive at something much richer and more thoughtful.” Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries Magazine.
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