Every painting in the Wild collection has been about the cost of suppression and the work of reclamation. The darkness faced, the demand made, the self recovered piece by piece from underneath everything that was piled on top of it.
This is what comes after all of that.
You are free in this world to be whoever you wish. The most beautiful choice is to be yourself. Not the edited version. Not the one calibrated for other people's comfort. The full one, with every colour present and none of them deferring to any other.
Nothing Held Back is the most chromatically expansive painting in the Wild collection. Yellow-green moves across the upper field in broad generous strokes. Indian yellow and orange erupt from the centre, the most densely loaded area of the canvas, applied in impasto, the paint thick enough to hold its own light. Deep navy dominates the right, heavily worked and textured. Cerulean blue moves vertically on the left. Pink sweeps through the lower field in the largest single colour mass in the lower half of any Wild painting. Darker green arrives in the lower centre, more contained than everything around it. Magenta surfaces beneath the pink. Paint splatters are visible throughout, the record of a pace fast enough to throw colour.
Every colour family is present. None of them are apologising for being there. The composition was refined through response the way all the Wild paintings were, every mark answering every other mark, the surface a record of that continuous conversation. But where other paintings in this collection hold tension between warm and cool, light and dark, suppression and emergence, this one holds no such tension. Everything is here. Everything is allowed.
The title is not a description of the painting's energy. It is an instruction.
From the Wild collection, 2025. Featured in Visual Art Journal.
From the artist:
"You are free in this world to be whoever you wish. The most beautiful choice is to be yourself."
Every painting in the Wild collection has been about the cost of suppression and the work of reclamation. The darkness faced, the demand made, the self recovered piece by piece from underneath everything that was piled on top of it.
This is what comes after all of that.
You are free in this world to be whoever you wish. The most beautiful choice is to be yourself. Not the edited version. Not the one calibrated for other people's comfort. The full one, with every colour present and none of them deferring to any other.
Nothing Held Back is the most chromatically expansive painting in the Wild collection. Yellow-green moves across the upper field in broad generous strokes. Indian yellow and orange erupt from the centre, the most densely loaded area of the canvas, applied in impasto, the paint thick enough to hold its own light. Deep navy dominates the right, heavily worked and textured. Cerulean blue moves vertically on the left. Pink sweeps through the lower field in the largest single colour mass in the lower half of any Wild painting. Darker green arrives in the lower centre, more contained than everything around it. Magenta surfaces beneath the pink. Paint splatters are visible throughout, the record of a pace fast enough to throw colour.
Every colour family is present. None of them are apologising for being there. The composition was refined through response the way all the Wild paintings were, every mark answering every other mark, the surface a record of that continuous conversation. But where other paintings in this collection hold tension between warm and cool, light and dark, suppression and emergence, this one holds no such tension. Everything is here. Everything is allowed.
The title is not a description of the painting's energy. It is an instruction.
From the Wild collection, 2025. Featured in Visual Art Journal.
From the artist:
"You are free in this world to be whoever you wish. The most beautiful choice is to be yourself."
