Neil Kathol Visual Art

This was one of my first large brush paintings, done right in one of the studios near the start of my BFA, this one in 2001. By then I had found and started trying out my “large brush”. This was actually a high quality industrial door seal although I didn’t know where it came from at the time – I found it on a busy street bent into a bow shape from all the cars that had been driving over it. Also, the image was not made in the usual way of intending to depict something; rather, it emerged from choosing some paint colours and some places to begin brushing it from. It really reminded me of students and of of my own figure straddling one of the wooden drawing stools they used in the studios, with something in the background the teacher would set up for us to study and draw.