Gallery Nyne: Who Is William Reinsch?
William Reinsch is a figurative painter, who works at his canvas for 8 hours every day, cities a deeper need for communication as an on-going inspiration behind his work. When human to human conversation was a struggle, Reinsch turned to painting. As the pathways of communication constantly evolve, so does the language of art - Reinsch works as an avid experimenter in his field, using a range of materials from brushes, to toilet paper and even sandpaper on occasion. William Reinsch unveils 4 things viewers of his work should know about him, as an artist:
If a piece of art is not challenging me in some way I tend to find it quite boring and uninspiring.
I think the more I learn as an artist the more I appreciate and get excited by the stranger and more mystifying. When it comes to my own work I am striving to be avant garde but there is only so much experimentation I can do. I need to keep the wheel moving (refining my technical ability) whilst searching and playing around with new possibilities. It can be hard to juggle the two because the new thing I choose to develop may overlap and replace a very refined area which I will have to throw away or even unlearn. I have to weigh whether the risks are worth it. I know for a fact I am a terrible judge of what new ideas are worth seeing through going by the amount of canvases I throw out.
Usually there are no idea's flowing when I work.
It's really just grinding. Of course I have to concentrate and try to feel what i'm doing but nothing else is going through my mind other than the work at hand. The idea's are something that come about away from all that, usually in the night when I am reflecting on the day's work. Francis Bacon said that inspiration comes from regular work. The longer I keep the momentum going the more focused I become on what it is i'm searching for. You travel further into that world and find more well fitted ideas rather than just clutching at straws. I will have to take a day off when I feel the momentum start to stagnate which does happen usually after a week or 2. It's very important not to burn yourself out and keep the flame burning for as long as possible.
The nudity in my work is something very personal.
It represents the anxiety I feel around other people. I feel stripped, vulnerable and open. The best way I could manifest this visually would be with a nude figure. I try to take it a bit further with the color and will maybe make a body bright yellow so that it catches your eye. It's then a sort of unwanted attention the figure brings, it doesn't want you to look at it but the color draws you in. The yellow is a representation of the anxiety itself.
I want to get across a feeling first and foremost, everything else is just a detail.
I think it's because of my agenda in art. I don't particularly care about realism or originality if there is no power in what it's communicating. There is a certain feeling you can get from art that words will never come close to. It feels like an almost spiritual sensation, like you have been enlightened. It all makes sense but you couldn't describe it to someone. It makes sense only in the art itself.That's what I'm aiming for in my work, I want to get that feeling out of me and onto the canvas to share with the world. This is my way of communicating, not with words but with feelings only a piece of art can possess.
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