Painting is often a lone sport but in this process I am not alone. An assist from nature, like a sailor I can steer the ship but the wind propels it. I choose my colours, consistency, starting composition, direction of flow, and ultimately decide when it’s finished, but in the middle of it all I give up control to an external force “a negotiation with gravity” as an external force bleeds and bends things together and apart. During this negotiation, telltale details of colour, contrasts, and shapes reveal the composition of the landscape to me.
24×30 Acrylic on canvas
All these landscapes start off as pure abstract. Then patterns, shapes, and colours within the abstract are followed to shape my landscape.
24×48 acrylic on canvas
If death is the guide to the after life, that would make him too a shepherd. Although this piece is ripe with symbolic meaning, religion, philosophy… With the turquoise in those mountains they are simply overpowered by colour.
24”x36” Acrylic on canvas
(A painting of a man in a suit with a pickaxe searching for bitcoin is observed in the wild)
Time and time again we give value to things that have none.
24”x36” Acrylic on canvas
Someone told me “the best advice I have for someone your age is to invest in stocks and in particular to invest in bitcoin”. I have also heard “The act of painting is to invest in your art” so to paint bitcoin in a way is to invest in bitcoin? Right??
24×36 acrylic on canvas
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
444 is the angel number for protection. The hero, the damsel, the fantasy and narrative and theme advertised to us over and over.
16×20
The landscape is shaped around a bubble gum pink tracer through the canvas
16×20
🔴 sold
The yellow tracer around the canopy of the trees in graffiti is known as a force field. The composition of my landscapes are often not planned but revealed to me in the pouring process
12”x26” acrylic on paper
48”x48” acrylic on canvas
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
One of my first memories of art: I was sitting In my grandmothers kitchen with our family friend Lewis. Lewis was a landscape painter who showed me how to draw a tree. As his pencil touched the paper and glided through the page I was captivated, I felt my arm hairs stand up with goosebumps, and a tranquil tingling sensation enthralled my brain as branches and bark formed from each motion.
24”x36” acrylic on canvas
“ESSENTIALLY, SPOILED!”
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas.
A commissioned painting Essentially spoiled is a short story by Caine Tailor.
24×36
I felt I owed it to my audience to show control over my medium, so I chose the familiar Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
16×20
🔴 sold
purple, yellow, and white
16×20
The entire composition of this landscape is shaped by following a bright yellow line that I saw during the pouring process.
24×36
The green in the mountains and the 2 gold bars that cut through the S. What great things can be done from what is hoarded from reach
16×20
A skull in the grass beside poppy’s
16×20
My landscapes are painted without reference but this particular scene is very similar to the view from the small lake at my family’s cottage.
16×20
🔴 sold
The combination of yellow, purple and white. Yellow can really pull out the reds of a purple and create flames
24×36
🔴 sold
24×36
🔴 sold
This piece was sold to a friend/collector the moment I posted it. I didn’t want it separated from the above piece that came from the same session, so he bought both
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
When the pursuit of making art and following the dream really felt bleak and began to feel like Ahab’s maniacal quest.
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
Ahab’s quest to become an artist continues
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
12×16
Originally I had intended to have him pointing and laughing at me, but after painting him I thought it was better to leave it to the viewers imagination to interpret what he could be laughing about
18”x24” Acrylic on canvas
Pink sheep is a play on the “black sheep” will return multiple times in my paintings as the LGBTQ and trans rights take the forefront of political debates in these times.
“12×16” Acrylic on canvas
Mountains are a representation of the obstacles we are challenged to overcome to achieve our dreams.
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
16×20
24×36
🔴 sold
purple, magenta, turquoise, yellow ,and white.
Contrary to most online demonstrations of pouring techniques, I don’t put my paint in the centre and try to keep the paint on the canvas. I spread the colour all over the canvas to create a starting composition with the corners and edges pre filled to run off. I prevent waste during this process by tilting the large amount of excess runoff onto a second canvas. The second canvas such as this painting becomes a lot more elaborate and intricate than the first, but by the third or fourth canvas it turns monochrome and convolutes.
72×60
acrylic on canvas
One of my largest dreamscapes. Death fishing is depicting death as a non aggressive figure. He amuses himself and passes time fishing lingering about until it’s your time. The Lemon is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons”. Next to death the lemon represents a dichotomy and the opportunity to seize our desired life in the window we have.
18×24
acrylic on canvas
16×20
Acrylic on canvas
20×20
Acrylic on canvas
18×24
A sunrise hitting purple mountain tops.
Acrylic on Canvas
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
16″ x 20″
Acrylic on canvas
There was a plain in her soul that kept her lovers close. A substanceless nutrientless plain Where she could pick the flowers that bloomed from the lovers foolish enough to wait.
acrylic on canvas
60″ x 36″
acrylic on canvas
This pondering giant was inspired by Goya’s Colossus
16”x20” Acrylic on canvas
acrylic on paper
Acrylic on paper
12”x16” Acrylic on canvas
12”x16” Acrylic on canvas
Nicholas Edwards Art 