All Things Considered

The Queen Of Hungary
Posted by Simon Lewin

Many thanks to Stephanie Douet who publishes The Queen of Hungary blog for her review of Colin Wilkin's exhibition of recent watercolours that opened here on Saturday...

"They are also map-like and exquisitely precise, even though he draws in the rough and wild open air. Sometimes the chemistry of the atmosphere dampens the paper and gives the colour greater strength. The colours are not naturalistic, it is almost as though they stand for real-life colours in a shaggier, rougher world. This precision is intriguing because he describes the process of making in a sort of existentialist way; he draws not only what he sees but peripheral and sensual stuff - the path his feet took, the sound of the shingle, raindrops from a vertical dimension."

Read the review in full here.

Posted by Simon Lewin on July 21st, 2009