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Nick Mcphail
October 2022
Nick McPhail is a painter from Los Angeles.
In his architectural landscape paintings - Nick studied architecture - he captures the hazy glow and saturated tones of California. Depicting modernist buildings, power lines and cars against a background of green hills and trees, his paintings focus on the relationship between nature and the built environment. Painted from snapshots, McPhail's works offer somewhat voyeuristic views of anonymous buildings that emerge from behind fences and shrubs or from the tops of isolated hills. As if we were hidden with him behind a bush or a car.
Light is central in his paintings, it comes from the background. He often begins by applying strong paints - pink, orange or fluorescent violet - all over the canvas and building his compositions in translucent layers, a method inspired by traditional Renaissance techniques. The vibrant, contrasting color of this underpainting becomes an essential element of McPhail's work and builds the composition.
Amélie du Chalard
