Bernard Weston Art
Bernard Weston is an Asian-influenced painter, who draws on his
personal engagement with Chinese and Japanese art history, theory, and
philosophy, in order to create paintings of the sublime. Unlike in the
West, however, greater attention has always been paid in Asia to
contemplative disposition in the making of a work of fine art. The goal
for a painter like Weston is not just to produce amazing art, but to do so
in conjunction with studied processes of mental, spiritual, and physical
Zen-like practice and preparedness.
The artist strives to convey peace and balance, embracing also a sense of
dynamism that is so cherished in the Eastern method of ink-brush
painting. Weston’s technique, however, is proprietary and unique. He
works with tinted venetian plasters on prepared canvas over board,
rather than on Asian Papers, and he polishes his surfaces with wax and
mica-silver or mica-gold compounds to add final luster. His paintings
exemplify the phrase ‘East meets West’, utilizing innovative, avant-garde
materials while being grounded the tradition of meditative art-making.
“The observation of beauty is an invitation to pause and just be present.
My intention is to allow my viewer that experience of pause, during
which the encroachments of daily life can just fall away”