Nigel Nolan

Of my small art collection (a guy only has so much wall space and NO storage space) the majority of the works are by a single artist, Nigel Nolan. This is the latest work of his I've acquired. "Rosario V" Rosario being Spanish for rosary. Nigel paints in Buenos Aires and Toronto. Oil on canvas -- NIgel's first group of works in oil. The canvas he's used is incredibly heavy. Not sure if in the resolution of the photo for posting here you can see it, but in this side-lit photograph check out the texture of the canvas! The cross on the chest is in silver leaf.

Nigel has a website: nigelnolan.com where you can see his prints (he's a master printmaker; he lays the inks on in layers of discernable depth) his charcoal drawings (check out "Sales Help") and his watercolours.

For some of his latest works (and some of his last watercolours) you need to go here:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/artpage/35453.html

Rosario V is remarkable for me in the dichotomy created between the beatific or serene countenance, and the violence of the rosary against the throat; at once the subject is accepting of and repelled by everything the Rosary means to or expects of him.

Thanks Nigel. You've done it again.