BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
“Getting a feel for dramatically upscaling my process,” says London born Jake Aikman as he brings a foreboding and riling image of the Black Sea to Kiev in the Ukraine. Primarily a studio painter back in Cape Town, South Africa, where he obtained a Masters at Michaelis School of Fine Art, this is his first wall ever, and the emotional drama erupts to the surface in a very public way.
Jake Aikman for Art United Us 2017. Kiev, Ukraine. (photo © Iryna Kanishcheva)
Typically his natural canvasses of sweeping seascapes, remote coastlines, and dense forests are rich but calm, perhaps alluding to something beneath the pacifically ambiguous and scenic tableaux. After nine days in July painting this new wall for Art United Us here in Kiev, Aikman appears to be telling us about an aqueous turbulence gathering and materializing before our eyes, capturing with his layering technique the truly storied spirit of this sea, itself known for a turbulent mixing of two layers.
Jake Aikman for Art United Us 2017. Kiev, Ukraine. (photo © Iryna Kanishcheva)
Jake Aikman for Art United Us 2017. Kiev, Ukraine. (photo © Iryna Kanishcheva)
Jake Aikman for Art United Us 2017. Kiev, Ukraine. (photo © Iryna Kanishcheva)
Learn more about Jake Aikman HERE.
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