Nick McPhail

Region: Pacific Coast

 The peripheral is at the core of my practice: what we see but do not focus on; what we overlook or take for granted. The quiet subject matter—empty streets, architecture meeting vegetation, power lines dividing the sky, dancing shadows on a wall—emphasizes the voyeuristic nature of urban life.

Every work begins as an observation; seen by the eye and memorialized through the lens of a camera, each image is then altered through paint. Personal memory and intuition guide each composition, creating a duality of location between what is remembered and what is real.