My name is Joel Wilde and I'm an abstract expressionist painter and photographer and ceramicist from and living in Sheffield. I've been interested in photography and painting for a long time, both starting out as hobbies. I went on to study art at college, after which I went to university and studied for a degree in fine art, graduating in 2007, I currently have my own studio, where I have been for the last five years, which is where I do my abstract paintings.
My work has always been abstract, but it has gone through a few different changes in style. When I first got my studio, my work was very energetic: I dribbled paint over and down the canvas and threw paint at it, mostly poster paint, used straight from the tube. This was often juxtaposed by sharp vertical and horizontal lines. I then moved on to a more formal style, looking at shapes and patterns, and also experimented a bit with depth and perspective. Recently in my paintings, I have tried to concentrate on big bold singular forms, rather than the complicated shapes, structures and patterns of my earlier work. I do occasionally go back, though, and re-visit some of my former styles, sometimes combining them with more recent styles.
Along side and also before and really started painting, i was doing photography, witch I have never really studied photography formally, but I have since undertaken a number of photography courses and classes. My photographic style is spontaneous and expressionistic, and, like my most recent styles of painting, I take pictures of bold shapes, forms and patterns. Other subjects that interest me are shadows, reflections, and seemingly random objects. In this sense, I feel my photography is strongly connected to my painting. Another creative route that I have taken is literally combining painting and photography. I used to keep them both separate, but then started to ask myself why, so experimented in bringing them together in a single piece of art. I experimented for some time around how exactly to do this, and then eventually found a method that did what I wanted - blurring the boundaries between photography and painting and making the viewer work to see the connections, not making it to obvious which is the photo and which is the painting, and blurring the boundaries between them.
I have relatively compared to my painting and photography taken up ceramics witch I have been doing for the last couple of years. I mostly do hand building, moulding lumps of clay, making organic abstract sculptures,
the style of these pieces are connected to my paintings and to parts of my photography, the abstract style of my painting and some of the more abstract shapes I take in my photography, for instants hills, and rock formations, trees in woods the twisting style of the branches and weaving of the vines, also occasionally i will do some slab work making more formal structures and but my organic abstract ceramic style is my main work
My work has always been abstract, but it has gone through a few different changes in style. When I first got my studio, my work was very energetic: I dribbled paint over and down the canvas and threw paint at it, mostly poster paint, used straight from the tube. This was often juxtaposed by sharp vertical and horizontal lines. I then moved on to a more formal style, looking at shapes and patterns, and also experimented a bit with depth and perspective. Recently in my paintings, I have tried to concentrate on big bold singular forms, rather than the complicated shapes, structures and patterns of my earlier work. I do occasionally go back, though, and re-visit some of my former styles, sometimes combining them with more recent styles.
Along side and also before and really started painting, i was doing photography, witch I have never really studied photography formally, but I have since undertaken a number of photography courses and classes. My photographic style is spontaneous and expressionistic, and, like my most recent styles of painting, I take pictures of bold shapes, forms and patterns. Other subjects that interest me are shadows, reflections, and seemingly random objects. In this sense, I feel my photography is strongly connected to my painting. Another creative route that I have taken is literally combining painting and photography. I used to keep them both separate, but then started to ask myself why, so experimented in bringing them together in a single piece of art. I experimented for some time around how exactly to do this, and then eventually found a method that did what I wanted - blurring the boundaries between photography and painting and making the viewer work to see the connections, not making it to obvious which is the photo and which is the painting, and blurring the boundaries between them.
I have relatively compared to my painting and photography taken up ceramics witch I have been doing for the last couple of years. I mostly do hand building, moulding lumps of clay, making organic abstract sculptures,
the style of these pieces are connected to my paintings and to parts of my photography, the abstract style of my painting and some of the more abstract shapes I take in my photography, for instants hills, and rock formations, trees in woods the twisting style of the branches and weaving of the vines, also occasionally i will do some slab work making more formal structures and but my organic abstract ceramic style is my main work
