Video: Instead of paints - confetti. Applique Paintings by Nikki Douthwaite
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
People use pieces of paper with a hole punch in different ways. Well, how they use it: they throw it away, or they give it to the kids to play with, and then they throw it away anyway. Although as the new year approaches, some may collect these colorful circles to make them a festive decoration for costumes or interiors … But the English artist Nikki Douthwaite collects paper dots all year round, regardless of the upcoming holidays. No, she does not make New Year's crackers at her leisure - she needs them for a completely different matter.
Nikki was born in Britain 36 years ago, where she lives and works to this day. And it works, as you might guess, all with the same multi-colored paper circles, which she needs a huge, well, just a gigantic amount. The fact is that Nikki Douthwaite does not paint her pictures, but glues them from multi-colored confetti. And she gets very unusual applique paintings.
In order to "paint" one such picture, an artist needs several hundred thousand paper circles of various colors. And many weeks of peace and quiet. So, when the girl was creating a portrait of the Formula 1 pilot Lewis Hamitleton, she needed 250,000 such circles, and a month of no-go work in her home art studio. But this is not a record: once it took her three whole months of hermitage to assemble a huge painting from tiny pieces of paper, which then ended up in the private collection of one of the connoisseurs of extraordinary creativity Nikki Douthwaite.
Unfortunately, the artist's site is under construction, so a rather meager gallery of works can only be viewed in her profile at Saatchi Gallery.
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