Nick Lepard

" My goal is to reflect people in the modern world , but not the modern world itself. " 

Nick Lepard's paintings convey the human not in complete control. "In a world that is constantly changing , and here one minute , gone the next."

Lepard's motivation lies in the mystery of his chosen medium " painting is like trying to solve a mystery. The mystery for me is how to create a painting that will capture the audience's attention and keep it for as long as possible. Right now images are not something we spend much time looking at something we then quickly move onto the next thing. To keep someone looking to have them paused on a single stationary image."

Looking at the way Lepard thinks has made me think about my paintings. I think I am trying to capture the same emotion of wanting to keep someone interested in your image that you are displaying. 

I think that the thing that interests me most about his paintings is that you can tell what it is you are looking at but you can also tell that is a painting there is a sense of freedom about it which is a joy to look at.

Another thing that is attracting me to these paintings is the choice of colour as it is much more brighter tones then a Jonathon Yeo painting which has a lot of earth tones. I enjoy how vibrant these colours are. 

The portraits capture the models personality , with the many layers of paint that make it so intriguing .

From my group critique I was given this artist to look at. I really like their work. I think that the style is really effective as it draws you to look at the person being portrayed. I also like the way the marks are made they feel like dream like especially with the choice of colours used. Since my crit I have thought about how I would like to move my project forward with individual faces I think that also experimenting with brush marks making them more free like this would be another way to go as it will create a dream like feel to the paintings. 

I really want to experiment with my brush marks as Nick Lepard creates his brush marks to form the face which is what I want to make more clear in my paintings. Making more bold marks.