Jim Watt | To A Groove
“I am not sure that there is anything that has been more impactful expresses non-duality like no other I have experienced. Jazz can be played with, inside and out, that you can have that and find it again. I’m interested in exploring this in paint.”
impactful than jazz on my work. It is an art form that Jazz offers the idea that the structure of a song or melody structure kind of fall apart and then you can come back
To a Groove 1, 2025
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
To a Groove 2, 2025
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
“I have always been fascinated by space, objects within with scale, in terms of space. Space is a very abstract thing.
within space, how we relate to space, and how you can play thing. It is not an object, it is a container.”
To a Groove 3, 2025
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
To a Groove 4, 2025 Oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
“I want to explore that tension between the surface itself, including the oil paint on the canvas–and the the canvas. That tension oscillates bewtewen an space in the sense of the two-dimensional material
surface quality–the material quality of the canvas the representation of space that pulls you through implied spatial depth and a complete lack of material thing that sits on the face of the canvas.”
To a Groove 5, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 72 inches
To a Groove 6, 2025
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
To a Groove 7, 2025
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
“The idea of harmony and dissonance, in terms of color; the idea have it be one thing or the other. If my paintings are successful, threshold between those. To me, jazz is the ultimate inspiration.”
idea of surface versus space, right? Play with those things. Not successful, I think it is where those two worlds of opposites touch - it is a inspiration.”
To a Groove 8, 2025
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
To a Groove 9, 2025
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
To a Groove 10, 2025 Oil on canvas
60 x 72 inches
