Painting series
Nick Green holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Colorado State University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design from Colorado State University. He has studied under notable artists such as David Yust, John Sorbie, Phil Risbeck, and Bob Coonts. Artist Influences: John Singer Sargent, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko.
The inspiration for a current abstract series (some examples below) comes from my study of how things resonate as they interact. The ripple effect from something as simple as feet running on a path to the earth’s plates grinding against each other...I am showing how I feel there is an aesthetic created from that contact or interaction that I experience: a pulse.
The series expanded after a close friend of mine had taken a nasty fall on his head. I chose to try to artistically incorporate these emotions to broaden the series. The results were paintings intended to express interaction knowing he was unconscious when his head collided with the ground. Later paintings evolved to explore the abstract of “oscilloscopic signatures” — from plate tectonics, to a butterfly landing on a bloom, to violent impacts — I paint my expression of small and large interactions I experience that produce ripple effects of energy.
Interpreting the kinetic energy of these forces with color and stroke, and composing dimension to the interpretation as if it were a landscape - oil on canvas seems to be the right medium for now. Even thought there are peaks and valleys of, say, a heartbeat on a monitor, I am not trying to reproduce the pattern, but what the snapshot of a segment of the wave may look like overlaid against another wave that does not necessarily have the same frequency. I am expressing disharmony from disparate, intersecting frequencies as a beautiful thing.
A few examples from my current series
Green-eyed Lady: Oil and graphite on canvas, 24"h x 48"w.
Moonlit
Mile: Oil and graphite on canvas, 24"h x 48"w.
Techtonica: Oil and graphite on canvas, 30"h x 48"w.
Quiescent
Center: Oil and graphite on canvas, 36"h x 48"w.
Platte
River - Confluence Park: Oil and graphite on canvas, 16"h x 20"w.
Oscillation:
Oil and graphite on canvas, 48"h x 48"w.
