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Nicholas Kilmer

Nicholas Kilmer (Born 1941) is active/lives in Massachusetts / France.  Nicholas Kilmer is known for Plein-aire landscape and waterscene painting, teaching, mystery book author.

Nicholas Kilmer's approach to painting captures the intensity of the first moment of observation. By working in series, he revises the classic impressionist technique of revisiting the same scene several times to experience the ephemeral qualities of light, atmosphere and illusion. As well, the artist strives to simultaneously keep in mind his initial response to the scene.

In Kilmer's vast body of work, he hopes to impart to the viewer a technique that he terms "the speed of looking", in that his hands are often moving before his mind has caught up with the artistic process. The artist wants viewers to experience the speed of initially witnessing and taking in a scene, regardless of how long it may have taken him to work out the finer details. Kilmer elaborates, "Nothing stands still in nature. I want the object I make to read like one blow of a hammer, one very intense act of looking."

Color is so fundamentally important to imparting Kilmer's vision that his bright, vib   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2621 characters.]  Artist bio

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