Nigel Westgate

• A contemporary emerging artist from Toronto, Canada with a specialization in spray-painted murals. They have an BFA in Painting and Drawing from OCAD University where they studied anatomy for artists, life drawing, abstract painting and the Italian renaissance. This artist’s practice ultimately utilizes murals to express himself, yet they also work with wood carving, found objects, canvases, and drawings. Primarily painting faces, animals, letters and abstractions as the core structure to create dynamic compositions and colourful murals. “A wall completely changes an area around it with paint, by abstracting shapes, letter forms and faces that inspire people with an alluring creativity embedded in their city.” They are passionate about bringing energy into their work, and painting real life through lenses of metaphor, emphasis and a goal to spark curiosity and creativity in the everyday viewer. The artist is himself inspired by their childhood and his obsession with murals since they were very young “I remember seeing walls as a kid and just being completely absorbed by the image.” It is that inquisition, astonishment, joy, and narrative that they aim to achieve in their work to affect someone else in the same way.
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