Nathan Paddison Untitled (Channel) For Sale

About this work

Nathan Paddison's "Untitled (Channel)" presents a visceral encounter between figure and ground, where the human form emerges through layers of gestural mark-making and chromatic intensity. The work on paper captures Paddison's characteristic approach of building and excavating imagery simultaneously, allowing the figure to surface through accumulations of pigment, line, and erasure. Passages of raw, exposed paper breathe alongside densely worked areas, creating a visual rhythm that pulses between presence and absence. The composition channels energy through its central form—a body rendered not through careful observation but through felt experience, as though the figure were remembered rather than seen. Paddison's hand moves with urgency across the surface, leaving traces of charcoal, paint, and what appears to be oil stick in sweeping arcs and abrupt stops. Color operates emotionally here: bruised purples collide with fleshy pinks, while blacks anchor the composition with weighted authority. There is something unresolved and deliberately so in this work—a quality that speaks to Paddison's interest in capturing states of becoming rather than fixed identities. The title itself suggests transmission, a conduit between interior sensation and external expression. This piece exemplifies his ability to balance abstraction's freedom with figuration's emotional specificity, never fully committing to either but finding rich territory in their intersection. Within Paddison's broader practice, "Untitled (Channel)" demonstrates his command of paper as a responsive, immediate surface that reveals process with particular honesty. This work represents a compelling opportunity to acquire a pivotal example of Paddison's evolving investigation into the painted body.