“The importance of this exhibition stems from my love for the many people that I meet. My aim is to bring others into the way that I see the world. The over-sized portraits of the individuals here, is my attempt to show their hidden characteristics, developing on their emotions and personal creativity as much as their outer appearance through my expression of symbols, directions and colour.
I also take specific elements of my own life and create mirrored experience in the art that I perceive in my mind and subsequently release onto the canvas...”
- George Weait
ABOUT GEORGE
To watch George Weait create art is to observe a flow of energy, not from, but rather through his body. An energy which emits in an invisible arc of electricity through hand, brush, oil stick, pastel and paint onto the medium of choice, whether that be canvas, paper, card or other. The resultant pieces are bursting with life, brilliance and the defining moments of their creation.
George Weait’s key ability is to take realized experience and capture it in an array of colour and movement which seems to dance in front of the eyes of the viewer, never letting up, with new elements to discover each time the work is observed afresh. This is what makes his art so extraordinary. Neither contrived, nor conceptualized, the pieces are composed like visual music, allowing the digested experience of everyday laughter, dance and social observation pour into a palette of vibrancy and colour, representing dimensions of radiance which coalesce into a wonderful narrative or portrait in joyful harmony.
In the last three years, George Weait’s extraordinary art has caught the eye of many and after a commercially successful showing at the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Show in July 2021, following his initial show at London’s Oxo Tower in June of the same year, George has continued to garner much interest with many sales from collectors both here and internationally.
FROM GEORGE
I take my ideology, my friendships and lifestyle from my social experiences and push them right back into my art. I love portraying the way that I see the world, through visualising characters amongst crazy parties, happy memories and wild observations. I use a wide range of different application mediums and a broad colour spectrum, constantly developing my way of working, thinking and illustrating.
I am also a fashion model for NEVS Agency London. This side of my career opens new doors to discovering artistic contacts, creative environments and fantastic teams of people. This radiates constant influences which I fully incorporate into my own art, as I have a huge passion for the fashion world, be it for the clothes that I am wearing and customising to designing my own pieces.
I always look at life with a brighter and more surreal approach, as I see extraordinary colours blasting and emanating from inanimate objects and the natural world, more than that which meets the standard human eye. I acknowledge the magnificent uniqueness in each living and sentient being and bring the collective entirety to roaring life through exaggerated features, radical movement and deeply intriguing faces. I create expansive, imaginative narratives and the people I draw get to live in pure playfulness, bright illumination and proper madness.
Paper and pencil is with me wherever I go. Life is better through a drawing.
