Our Long-Form section is dedicated to exploring current approaches to painting. Alongside some of our favorite writers, we also seek to publish written output from painters writing about painting. We want to highlight the breadth of invention and play that can come about when painters translate their voices into textual form.
"The work then lives, breathing and flickering in the darkness. In the same way that we occasionally experience moments of tender humanity through the screen of the mobile phone, Wilson’s flicker of light reminds us we can create a home for ourselves, and within ourselves, regardless of our immediate environment or circumstance."
Our latest Long-Form entry again comes from London-based writer Issey Scott, who embarks on the first in a new series that asks writers to respond directly to a single painting, seen and experienced first-hand. In her piece, written during her Painting Diary residency in Vienna, Scott responds to a painting by Tim Wilson (b. 1970) titled Nightstand IX, 2024.
This piece was created by Wilson during his residence in 2024 and thus creates an extended dialogue between two Painting Diary residents as maker and viewer. Issey’s text reads as a meditative journey of discovery that explores the painting as physical encounter and ponders memories presumed and imagined.
