Mountain Plays With Cloud
8cm x 8cm
Oil on Board
2025
 
Painting in miniature was not the obvious choice for the grand sweeps of unimaginable distance in my paintings, but what a challenge! The result feels like William Blakes' "World in a grain of Sand", in this case, a Mountain in your hand.
 
James Naughton works from a collective studio in his hometown of Bolton(UK). His practice explores the intuitive response of his imagination to purely unplanned passages of paint. His work is in the collection of both, the public gallery in Bolton, and the Manchester City Art Gallery.