What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes… — James Nares Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm… — James Nares Copy Share Image
It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose… — James Nares Copy Share Image
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like… — James Nares Copy Share Image
The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as… — James Nares Copy Share Image
It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I… — James Nares Copy Share Image
