Nick Hais

INFORMATION

Nick researches material for his paintings by taking hundreds of photographs as he travels. He returns to the studio and works on selected images, using photo editing software, manipulating and combining  them to carefully create visually balanced compositions. The images are then projected on to the canvas and drawn up. (In the past he used to make exactly observed drawings from the subject matter, these were then transferred to canvas by 'squaring-up'.) The exact colour balance of the pictures is decided on as he progresses, with the result that the final results can differ greatly from the original images.

Although, at first viewing, the paintings may seem to be purely figurative, they are in fact based on a non-representational compositional preoccupation with line, shape and colour pictorial geometry. Interestingly, Nick's student and early work was fully abstract (non-figurative). The paintings are artificial constructions, where the non-figurative abstract qualities are the artist's primary creative concern. This combining of colours and shapes in structured compositions is what makes painting exciting to the artist and, it is hoped, makes looking at the paintings exciting to the viewer as well.

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BUYING or COMMISSIONING PAINTINGS

Nick Hais has undertaken a number of painting commissions, both for corporate and for private buyers. Please use the form on the Contact Page if you are interested in buying or commissioning a painting.

A range of paintings by Nick Hais can now be bought through   www.thestudio.gallery