Nathan Walsh: Echoes

 

In Walsh’s drawings, it’s evident that he has mastered the portrayal of spatial depth using linear perspective. Lines transfigurate the space achieving an uncanny quality. The architectural approach, as he experiments with perspectives, goes beyond tradition, and sometimes proves similar to Leanardo Da Vinci’s studies. 

 

The composition is layered, and the drafted dimensionality confronts our point of view by deconstructing what we think reality is. We are able to catch the glimpse of the metamorphosing world that Walsh has built with multitudes of narratives caught in a single frame. Remaining marks add into the configurative transience of exoskeletal forms, forming a portal to the artist’s representation of warped space and time. 

 

Walsh’s hyper-realistic paintings have a larger than life essence, with the use of a vivid color pallet. The visionary intensity and immediacy of the viewer to be present gives his work novelty.  Clear-cut details transform the panoramic capture transcending past our accustomed dimensionality of existence. The painterly nature of the works create sophisticated, almost surrealistic, works of art, re-introducing us to the nature of physical existence.