The works I produce attempt to recall experiences in the landscape on the surface of a canvas or artist panel. It is the translation, discovery and vision which allows the paintings to become. In particular I have found this to be most true with the unspoilt dramatic and varied landscape of New Zealand, in particular the South Island.
“It is important to allow a painting to speak for themselves in terms of balance of mark, gesture, colour and compositional balance, knowing when a piece is “finished” can be quite difficult to judge. I am not particularly interested in illustrating a particular scene with every blade of grass, nor do I want location to be particularly obvious. I want the paintings to speak for themselves as entity.” (William Wood: 2017)
I follow in the long tradition of landscape oil painting and in particular has taken interest in the works of Arnold Bocklin, Casper David Friedrich, William Turner and John Constable as sources of inspiration.
” I have always been an advocate of seeing Art in the first hand, especially historical pieces to which a lot can be in learnt in terms of techniques, materials and approaches to subject matter. ”
