Jim Wildman is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist recognized by curators, collectors, and art patrons across the globe. Born in Spokane, Washington, and raised in Oklahoma, he currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jim Wildman Art is an art website where you will see the original fine art of an artist who deeply connects to nature and loves craftsmanship and creating. He creates abstract, contemporary, and modern collectible artwork using natural materials.
Jim Wildman is a contemporary art painter born in 1964 in Spokane, Washington. Moved from Claremore, Oklahoma, near Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2020. He now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He creates mostly ink drawings of beautiful faces, abstract and landscape oil paintings, or wood combines 3D panels and sculptures. His technique consists of carefully layering lines, colors, plaster, gypsum, wood, or other textures, including sawdust on canvas or paper. Jim creates a dense, subtle, and slowly deepening mixture of overlapping colors and shapes. He adds marks and texture from sawdust to metal items.
His works are an abstract and unique view of faces, florals, and paintings or drawings inspired by nature. Living in Green Country, OK, and Piedmont in NC countryside, Jim loved visiting the woods, lakes, mountains, and adjoining beaches close to North Carolina. His contemporary landscape, mixed media, acrylics, and oil paintings are based on his own inspiration or photographs taken during walks or travels.
Photography
He enjoys computer graphics and photographs that are often part of a series of overpainted photographs. Jim also creates watercolors of imaginary landscapes and abstracts. His work is sold to architects, interior designers, and private collectors worldwide.
Thank You For Your Service
After serving his country for more than a decade in the United States Marine Corps, Jim completed his architectural degree at Oklahoma State University School of Architecture. He owns a custom woodworking company JWDesigns.
Each painting has a life of its own, and I simply allow my emotions and appreciation for color to be released. If you study the painting, you may find hidden elements that appear. I create these works using various media, including oil, acrylic, latex, industrial enamels, cold wax, encaustic, and plaster. I also like to paint on various substrates that, include: canvas, paper, metal, wood panels, or rigid foam insulation panels that are made of either polystyrene, polyisocyanurate, or polyurethane.
Inspiration
I am Inspired by many artists, including contemporary artists such as Gerhardt Richter, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Richard Sera, and Pierre Soulages. I have developed my own unique technique for my Squeegee Pull Series. My technique consists of carefully adding and subtracting layers of colors by using Palette knives, brushes, and squeegees.
I create a dense, subtle, and slowly deepening mixture of overlapping colors and shapes. I have developed a complex painting medium for oils and acrylics that allows me to build up unusual textures. Through research, I have learned how to create heavy and impasto paintings. I work in oil or mixed media and often add other elements, such as cold wax.
Portraits, Faces, Figures
The Portrait Series consists of creating predominately beautiful female faces and figures. Works are created utilizing multiple techniques, including ink, watercolor, pastel, and line drawings. I also enjoy technology and exploring computer-enhanced images.
Mediums include oils, acrylics, pastels, mixed media encaustic, and cold wax.
Substrates include Canvas, Panels, Watercolor Paper, and Fine Art Papers.
I offer Original Art and Limited Edition Prints on museum-grade thick archival paper like Torchon. The giclee printing results in rich, intense colors that are faithful to the original art. The print image varies in size. However, I have found that collectors, homeowners, or interior designers prefer 16 x 20" horizontal images with two inches of extra paper to allow for framing.
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" comes in a limited edition of only 25 prints, all hand-signed and numbered by me. Once all 25 of the prints in the edition sizes have sold out, no other prints of "Enchanting" will be available in 20x30" size.
Limited Edition Prints of this artwork may be available in other sizes.
Order processing takes approximately ten days. Your print is produced and sent to me personally for quality inspection, numbering, and signing. Then your print is shipped, and you are sent a tracking number by email. The print ships in a sturdy tube with a certificate of authenticity.
My technique consists of carefully adding and subtracting layers of colors, charcoal, or ink by using pens, brushes, and squeegees. I create a dense, subtle, and slowly deepening mixture of overlapping colors and shapes.
When painting, I have beauty, color, and texture in mind. I build layer upon layer of color and texture.
My oil or acrylic works can be tactile paintings with structures that emerge within the layers.
An energetic piece with structure, depth, and gravitas may also allude to landscape and emotionally filled seascapes.
Artworks are created using a combination of techniques and may be combined of fine art printing with detailed drawings that are then enhanced or drawn using various media.
Portraits, Faces, Figures
Each work is an intimate study of an individual or group. Influences include studying both contemporary and masters such as well-known artists' including Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, and Picasso.
Digital Art
Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process. More generally, the term digital artist describes an artist who uses digital technologies to produce art.
Digital is the newest medium I enjoy as an artist. In my quest to tell their stories, I have discovered that using a computer allows me to build images and release my imagination, and I am not constrained.
Jim has his studio, an art gallery, and a multidisciplinary space based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In a recent Fall Exhibition, Jim Offered a Variety of Work
Jim Wildman's new series of paintings, created ad hoc for the exhibition, reflected his love of experimentation.
Working with his aunt, Cheryl Johnson, he collaborated to create multiple Color Field Paintings
One painting may be about flys or beetles or butterflies, and there you may find an accidental entanglement of insects in flight. When we look at them through a different lens, the insects seem distorted and become a death scene in which the insects seem splattered on the canvas. That is life. The background color is bright yellow, which is decorative but draws the eye; it’s telling the viewer to pay attention that there is something important that something important is happening.
Where have all our insects gone?
There is a crisis in the world today, and research shows – that a massive decline in insect numbers could have significant environmental consequences. Read More.
In Jim’s series, bugs, beetles, flies, and birds created with spray paint background colors are striking and unusual. You will see Insects and Birds that are in motion. To me, “this accentuates the expressivity of the action, the intensity, the passion, the intrigue of the motion.”https://www.meer.com/en/71506-jaan-toomiks-new-exhibition
Trilobites or Arthropods
Jim recently began a series of works on Trilobites or Anthrpods .
“ I am fascinated by nature's detail and oddities, " Jim commented. The colors and detail are incredible.”
Trilobites ( meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record.
Arthropods (/ˈɑːrθrəpɒd/, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (arthron) 'joint', and πούς (pous) 'foot' (gen. ποδός)) are invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda. Wikipedia
Life began in the sea around 3,900 million years ago. It remained single-celled for, I guess, 3,000 million years. The first animal types with bodies containing multiple cells appeared around 1,000 million years ago.
Bodies were shaped and all soft, like worms and jellyfish.
Around 520 million years ago, one group of animals – trilobites – evolved and became a creature with image-forming eyes. Trilobites then evolved hard skeletons and swimming and predatory capabilities.
COLOR
Vision and color were born, and we were introduced to our beautiful planet Earth in a relatively sudden blow.
Colour is "virtual reality" in that it is a construct of the mind – it exists only in the brains of animals with eyes.
“Reality” is constructed by your brain. Jun 22 2020
In the image below:
Start by staring at the black dot on the left side of this image. As you gaze at the left dot, determine in what direction the object on the right is moving. Is it drifting diagonally, or is it moving up and down?
IMPORTANT: Remember, focus on the dot on the left.
Courtesy of Patrick Cavanagh Read More
It looks like the object on the right is moving diagonally, up to the right and then back down to the left. Right? Right?!
Actually, it’s not. It’s moving up and down in a straight, vertical line.
See for yourself. Trace it with your finger.
“This is a visual illusion. That alternating black-white patch inside the object suggests diagonal motion and confuses our senses. Like all misperceptions, it teaches us that our experience of reality is not perfect. But this particular illusion has recently reinforced scientists’ understanding of deeper, almost philosophical truths about the nature of our consciousness.
“It’s really important to understand we’re not seeing reality,” says neuroscientist Patrick Cavanagh, a research professor at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow at Glendon College in Canada. “We’re seeing a story that’s being created for us.”
Most of the time, the story our brains generate matches the real, physical world — but not always. Our brains also unconsciously bend our perception of reality to meet our desires or expectations. And they fill in gaps using our past experiences.
All of this can bias us. Visual illusions present clear and interesting challenges for how we live: How do we know what’s real? And once we know the extent of our brain’s limits, how do we live with more humility — and think with greater care about our perceptions?
Rather than showing us how our brains are broken, illusions give us the chance to reveal how they work. Read More
Do insects have brains?
“Do you ever wonder if bugs have brains? What exists in their tiny heads? Most insects have tiny brains, but they don’t work as ours do. Some insects such as cockroaches can live for several days without their heads which isn’t the case for humans. So what are their brains for? In this article, we discuss insect brains and intelligence. Read Mo
The evolutionary reaction to the presence of the fast and fleet-footed trilobites was incredible and dramatic. Other animal species rapidly evolved shells or hard, protective body parts and changes to their behavior (such as being able to swim) to survive the new threat posed by vision. Some species even evolved eyes and predatory instincts.
This event became known as the Cambrian explosion or the Big Bang of animal evolution. “I love the color blue,” commented Jim. The very first eyes may have seen only blues, the most common color in the sea (the color in sunlight that best penetrates water).
Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away
Home Nursery Rhyme
Ladybug! Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire.
And your children are alone.
All except one,
And that's little Ann,
For she crept under
The frying pan.
Throughout history, many artists have painted birds and bugs etc. The
Roseate Spoonbill – by John James Audubon is one of Jim’s Favorites.
Jim has expanded his work to include Insects, Birds, and more
You may wonder what some famous bird paintings by other artists are.
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