Felix H. Wilkinson is an artist led, not for profit, online gallery. Selling unique affordable art directly from emerging and established artists. Paintings, limited edition prints, small sculptural assemblages and painted skateboards. Plus posts from artists and interviews with creatives.
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A selection of our artists – Lesley Hilling, Duncan McAfee, Zin Maisiri and Shaun Caton.
Black boy on the Verge of Suckling Fish Christ
One of a limited edition of twenty prints signed by the artist, Ajamu. Photographed in October 2020.
Ajamu is a Black, queer British artist, curator, archivist and activist. He is best known for his fine art photography which explores same-sex desire, and the Black male body. He has exhibited internationally for decades and his work is featured in many museums and collections through out the world, including Tate Britain.
We are looking forward to the publication of his fine art limited edition artist’s book in May.
Felix’s Choice
Nel Burke is a collage artist and gatherer and re-purposer of old photos and printed material.;
‘I use what is already in the world – what has already been manufactured, and rescue and re-use a tiny fraction of what would be destroyed. I realised recently, that (almost) everything I use, is a photograph, taken by someone, mediated through a camera lens, whether an image of people in the street, or a photo of a fifteenth century painting. Then, highly processed: exposed on film, treated with chemicals, printed on paper, itself processed from trees, saturated with ink, and mass printed for (usually) a very short life span (one day?
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In Focus…
Naomi Walker
Each month Felix focuses on a particular creative person. This month we look at the life and work of Naomi Walker, who is the creator and owner of Her Blaze. The mission of Her Blaze® is to offer support, promotion and opportunities for participating artists, while offering inspiration, promoting creativity and displaying new art. read more…
Post
- Cool World and some thoughts about my paintings
Cool World Duncan McAfee. Talking about Ralph Bakshi’s animation: I first chanced on Cool World, some time in 2016 and it changed the way I approach painting. Cool World is Ralph Bakshi’s wonderfully flawed 1992 feature about a cartoon dimension that exists in parallel with the real world. The premise of the film is ridiculous, - Collage
Collagist, Nel Burke talks about her influences and the Instagram collage community Art history tells us collage started with Picasso and Braque, and flows through the twentieth century via Surrealism, Schwitters and Dada: these are the established threads through time, the links which connect collagists through to the twenty-first century. Tearing and cutting, fracturing, displacement - London’s Housing Crisis
London’s Housing Crisis by Felix H. Wilkinson ‘Make me wanna holler’ is a line from Marvin Gaye’s seminal tune Inner City Blues. It’s as relevant today as it was in the late sixties, but for different reasons. At that time our cities were suffering from decay and urban blight. Today, issues of affordability and inequality