Artist Statement

Nye’s paintings are rooted in the realist, descriptive tradition of oil painting. The act of seeing is not always easy. To him, the beauty is in looking and not necessarily what you are looking at. In his paintings, there is an abundance of information at hand. Imagery overlaps. Systems collide. Colour, line and form blanket the landscape. Nye’s compositions are like a playground for the eyes and decoding their message requires a certain kind of visual agility.