Nigel van wieck biography

From one side, the painter Nigel Van Wieck (b.

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Born in Kent in , Nigel Van Wieck is an English artist who now lives and works in New York.

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Nigel Van Wieck (Born ) is active/lives in United States.

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) appears to be the proverbial “Englishman in New York,” having discovered Old Master aesthetics and made them his own since , when he immigrated to the U.S. But from the other side, we see the quintessentially American practitioner of contemporary realism he has become during those same three and a half decades.

For some scenes, he makes pencil studies of the whole composition, but otherwise sets to work in oils directly on panel, or in oil pastels on paper or card.

At the end of every long workday, Van Wieck photographs the picture in its latest form, then sits at his computer and uses Photoshop software to solve compositional problems digitally so that he will not have to scrape down his painted surface any more than is necessary.

When facing a challenge, he visits such repositories of inspiration as the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see how Nicolas Poussin and other Old Masters might solve it