James Hamilton
James Hamilton has been painting quietly for nearly twenty years, beside his career as an art gallery curator and director, and, since the early 1990s, biographer and art historian. His spirited watercolours have vivacity and charm, with a quirky, unfamiliar eye on landscape form and structure.
They are antidotes to the work of his beloved Turner, Gainsborough and Constable, Hamilton's way of getting away from the presence of these famous, world-shaping colossi. As one critic has said of James Hamilton's work, 'your paintings make me happy'. What better recommendation can there be?
[Image: Sea and Rocks, Narja, James Hamilton]