Website

http://www.edwardwaltonwilcox.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

University of Florida, Gainesville

Program

Painting

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting, Sculpture

I am...

seeing around me the evolution of culture dictated by media as it washes the hands of commerce and sets the stage for a new morality. Once long held conventions, paradigms of thought, tradition, and cultural value now give way to a new world obsessed with personal ambition and material gain.

With the romance of being now draining away from daily life I draw on memories past in order to cope with the present. Caught in a cycle of hope against despair I struggle to make peace with what is happening around me. Changes in life’s stage once so drawn and gradual as to not be witnessed in a single lifetime now pass in a decade. We are now racing away from what once was, bringing with it a blending of nostalgia and decline. The speed of progress now draws a vacuum and pulls me in unwillingly.

About my artwork

Romanticism is where my work finds its voice in both paintings and sculpture. The genre’s inherent qualities and conventions are a suitable vehicle of expression for the cultural criticisms and social climate in which our generation finds itself; a paradigm match, which includes such concepts as excess, transgression, diffusion and ambivalence concerning both rationality and morality

Artists I like

Thomas Moran, Breugel, Altdorfer, Bosch, Turner, Bierstadt...

Interests

Custom bodied vintage Rolls Royces and primitive forms of weaponry.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Haven't been out of my studio lately.

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere