Brian Hillman

Here you’ll find some of the work I’ve been engaged in over a period of time.

Much of it I have not shown before.

I now realise there’s no point in not sharing.

All I can hope is that you enjoy what you see.

If you get something from it I’ll be really happy.

I love making sculpture.

It’s so engaging to move around a piece.

Even when making a small sculpture there’s no need to be static.

It makes me feel really in touch.

Ai Weiwei says your hands teach you, it’s true.

There seems to be as many ways to paint as there are painters. How do you choose? Make a mark. Be courageous. This step is repeated almost every time I face a canvas.  The process begins. Battle is engaged. When time has passed, you can get a sense of what is actually there and maybe a feeling for the next step.

My early love of colour is still there and I’m learning the colour, as well as shapes masses and spaces, can be compositional and lead to harmony and perhaps even drama.  Food for an inner dance of feeling as well as for the eye.

Some of my later paintings are a surprise and seem to hold the promise of stories and realms I had not consciously thought of.

The urge to make marks seems to be almost as natural as breathing. The goal is to be as free as a child and yet somehow make use of learned and sophisticated skills. Care perhaps, but not control. Launch the intention, let your skills come into play, and watch what happens.