Paulette Lorraine Berner Community Gallery
Who
Nate Wilson
Where
Second Floor
When
October 4 - October 27
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 12:00 to 4:30
Watercolors by Nate Wilson
I use watercolors to paint fish and other creatures of the underwater realm. Watercolor seems to be the best choice for my subjects. The medium and the fish that I paint intersect; wet paint for wet animals, living in a wet world.
In the past year I have been fortunate enough to take two trips to West Papua, Indonesia. These trips were tied to artwork that I have done in conjunction with Conservation International as well as Reshark, a conservation group focused on restoring the Zebra Leopard Shark to the reefs of Raja Ampat. My artwork has been used in various ways to benefit conservation in an area of the world that holds some of the most bio-diverse and healthy coral reefs. The images I plan to show relate to not only to these trips overseas, but also to the aquatic life in the rivers and streams where I live in Central PA.
I believe that portraying individual fish on simple white backgrounds will bring their beauty and complexity forward for the viewer to consider unhindered; like setting a gemstone on display. I hope that by doing so people will consider not only the myriad patterns and colors that make up these animal’s appearance but also the routines and relationships each one of these fish has within the ecosystem it inhabits, as well as the tremendous diversity that exists in our world.
