KEITH WILSON
San Rafael, CaliforniaWest Coast - United States



Original Artworks (16)

Keith Wilson; Red Square, 2005, Original Printmaking Giclee, 13 x 17 inches. Artwork description: 241 Red Squares appear all over the world. ...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2005
13 x 17 inches (33.0 x 43.2 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Sissinghurst Kent, 2005, Original Printmaking Giclee, 13 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241 Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, England. ...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2005
13 x 18 inches (33.0 x 45.7 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Claremont Preserve, 2005, Original Printmaking Giclee, 15 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241 Beautiful landscape print inspired by daily walks in the Berkeley Hills. Other prints in this series are available. ...
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Original Giclee, 2005
15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Sugarloaf, 2003, Original Printmaking Giclee, 19 x 19 inches. Artwork description: 241 Sugarloaf Mountain is viewed from the gardens of the Powerscourt Castle in County Wicklow, Ireland. The energy and strength of this treeless granite peak is rendered with a Chinese brush using watercolor mixed with sumi ink. ...
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Original Giclee, 2003
19 x 19 inches (48.3 x 48.3 cm)
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Keith Wilson; LoggiaLucca, 2003, Original Printmaking Giclee, 17 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 The hot August afternoon at a villa outside of Lucca was intended to be enjoyed by resting in this lounge chair. ...
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Original Giclee, 2003
17 x 12 inches (43.2 x 30.5 cm)
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Keith Wilson; AlpineCity, 2003, Original Printmaking Giclee, 17 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 The buildings take their forms from the mountain peaks and valleys in this painting inspired by the book' Alpine Architecture' by the visionary architect Bruno Taut ( 1919) . ...
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Original Giclee, 2003
17 x 12 inches (43.2 x 30.5 cm)
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Keith Wilson; WicklowMts, 2003, Original Printmaking Giclee, 19 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241 On a recent trip to Ireland the intimate scale of the Wicklow Mountains provided inspiration for a series of green watercolors painted with a Chinese brush and watercolor mixed with sumi ink....
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2003
19 x 20 inches (48.3 x 50.8 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Saint Peters, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 18 x 14 inches. Artwork description: 241 The vast colonnades that extend out from the facade of St. Peter's Basicalla in Rome create an urban space that could define the center of the world. It is rare to find an outdoor space that is so large but at the same time embracing. ...
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Original Giclee, 2002
18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
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Keith Wilson; DRAGONWELL MONASTERY-Hang Zhou, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 18 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241 Gray- green plaster buildings set along a hillside below the spring that is used to brew dragonwell tea. The spatial relationship of the buildings creates a dialog or conversation between the solids and the voids that is in a constant state of flux like water pouring from ...
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Original Giclee, 2002
18 x 13 inches (45.7 x 33.0 cm)
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Keith Wilson; INTER-Section, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 18 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241 On a recent trip to Italy I was saddened to observe that the scarred and stained plaster walls that were such an inspiration 20 years ago are now being refinished and the patinias showing centuries of weather and decay are being removed to present a new and ...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2002
18 x 13 inches (45.7 x 33.0 cm)
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Keith Wilson; GATE ONE - From 12 Gates ..., 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 17 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241 Dave Von Ronk and many blues artists have sung
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2002
17 x 12 inches (43.2 x 30.5 cm)
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Keith Wilson; MILANO, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 18 x 13 inches. Artwork description: 241 Behind this facade of a church in an empty Italian plaza is the room that contains the painting of the LAST SUPPER by Leonardo da Vinci. Medium: Giclee Print- Archival inks	    with 23k gold leaf applied by the artistPaper: Somerset English 100% rag content...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2002
18 x 13 inches (45.7 x 33.0 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Garden House-Kent, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 12 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241 In a private garden larger than most city parks this carved stone garden shed of perfect proportions and exquisite workmanship contained a few wooden boxes and some broken teak furniture. The garden house's role as scale element among giant geometric topiarys justified it's existence.  Medium: ...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2002
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Villa At The Spanish Steps, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 12 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241 The Spanish Steps in Rome are so famous that the surrounding buildings and architectural features are often ignored. The family the lives in the penthouseLoggia that is the subject of this painting have the best perch from which to observe all of the activity of the ...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2002
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
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Keith Wilson; After Dinner Painting, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 13 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241 This watercolor was painted after cooking and eating ChristmasDinner. It is an imaginary architectural invention thathas a complicated zig- zag composition  balanced by a black sky.Medium: Giclee Print- Archival inks	    with 23k gold leaf applied by the artistPaper: Somerset English 100% rag content...
Keith Wilson
Original Giclee, 2002
13 x 18 inches (33.0 x 45.7 cm)
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Keith Wilson; Lucca-Church, 2002, Original Printmaking Giclee, 11 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241 The vineyard covered foothills outside of the Italian town of Luccaare filled with villas, stone farm buildings and churches.On Sunday mornings the bells from these churches fill the valleys and the locals walk miles to attend services.Medium: Giclee Print- Archival inksPaper: Somerset English ...
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Original Giclee, 2002
11 x 18 inches (27.9 x 45.7 cm)
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Artist Statement

Keith Wilson’s Architectural paintings are icons dedicated to an architecture that is no longer conceived or constructed. They represent his continuous study of architectural form. In his work he uses building structures and details in playful juxtaposition, allowing classical elements and vernacular constructions to have their own way, proliferating variations. His color is similarly the product of memory and imagination, inspired by the painted buildings he has seen in Italy and Greece. The result of this graphic exploration is a body of several hundred paintings and drawings, in which knowledge of historic form, fantasies of buildings that might be, and studies for commissioned works are all intermixed.
Recently he has been painting landscapes of inspired by the hills that are adjacent to the UC Berkeley campus. The original paintings are painted with Chinese brushes using sumi ink and watercolor mixed with black water.

The artist is offering signed limited edition prints of the paintings from his private collection. The printing method employed has a very high resolution which reproduces the brilliance and transparent qualities of the original watercolor paintings using permanent, archival ink on 100% rag watercolor paper.

Keith Wilson was born in 1954 in Redding, California and has lived in the Bay Area since 1972. He has traveled extensively in Britain, Europe, Japan, China, Chile and Tunisia with his camera and sketchbook. ...

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