Nigel Van Wieck

Nigel Van Wieck can be rightly considered the heir of Edward Hopper; his canvases have a modern content and seem to belong to a distant era. Most of the scenes are drawn from real life, where the artist seems to behave like a voyeur. In subway stations, train cars, and sun-soaked beaches, solitude emerges. The composition of the paintings is often deserted and immersed in silence; there is rarely more than one figure, and when there is more than one, a dramatic estrangement and incomprehensibility between the subjects seem to arise, often deep in their unfathomable thoughts...