Chris Wikman

Chris Wikman is a self-taught painter who works in acrylics. He works mostly from memory, creating specific images that emerge from his reflection on experiences grounded in various places he has been with his family and friends. He primarily focuses his attention on parts of the landscape that go unnoticed because of our prevailing assumptions about the important features of nature. His intension is to render beauty through depictions of the transitional spaces between recognized natural landmarks. Through this practice, he transforms our perceptions of farmer’s fields, sloughs, flooded ditches or bluffs of wild trees along the highway - places that we would otherwise disregard.