Nikolas Demasi

Welcome

The remnants of his bush upbringing are subtly apparent in his large, expressive, emotionally powerful paintings. The outback theme is sometimes contrasted by a sense of urban grit and chaos to further veil his works in an element of mystique.

Each painting is a significant piece of an on-going biographical account of Demasi’s life. Some from the immediate past and others travel further back in time to childhood encounters.

Colour takes a leading role in the paintings. At times it is decadently slathered on in unabashed portions and in contrast washed over the surface as a thin stain like a water impression. This remains almost seeing through to the bone of the raw canvas left in its natural state. Nikolas Demasi aspires to invoke people’s passions and desire with his paintings.

2004-2005

A.K.A.Stract

Mixed Media On Canvas 130cm x 90cm

Boom Town

Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm (Private Collection)

City Scape

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 120cm (Private Collection)

Curbside

Mixed Media on Canvas 100cm x 100cm

Daze

Mixed Media on Canvas 90cm x 90cm

Enigma

Mixed Media on Canvas 175cm x 132cm

Hundertvasser

Mixed Media on Canvas 140cm x 140cm (Private Collection)

Overnight Systems

Mixed Media on Canvas 140cm x 140cm (Private Collection)

Restless

Mixed Media on Canvas 100cm x 140cm (Private Collection)

Untitled_No5

Mixed media on Board 100cm x 120cm

Untitled_No6

Acrylics on Canvas 100cm x 120cm

Warehouse No 3

Mixed Media On Canvas 140cm x 140cm

2006

Abstracting

Mixed Media on Canvas 142cm x 185cm

Abstraction

Mixed Media on Canvas 70cm x 90cm (Private Collection)

Bush Scene_01

Mixed Media on Canvas 90cm x 90cm (private Collection)

Coastal View

Mixed Media on Canvas 60cm x 130cm (X2)

Mundi Mundi

Mixed Media on Canvas 140cm x 160cm (Diptych)

Outlook View

Mixed Media on Canvas 140cm x 180cm

Sequence Shiraz

Mixed Media on Canvas 140cm x 180cm (Private Collection)

Tomaso

Mixed Media on Canvas 140cm x 180cm

Unfolding

Acrylic on Canvas 140cm 140cm

Untitled No2

Mixed Media on Canvas 100cm x 100cm

Warehouse No 4

Mixed Media on Canvas 142cm x 185cm (Private Collection)

2007

Arctic teaze

Acrylic on canvas 120cm x 120cm

Balco

Mixed media on canvas 100cm x 100cm

BarrenTeaze

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 120cm

Bluescape

Mixed media on canvas 60cm x 60cm

Ninemile 2

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 120cm

Now days

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Outbreak

Mixed media on canvas 180cm x 180cm

Outlook mire

Mixed media on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Regional view

Oil on canvas 120cm x 120cm

Schuller harvest

Mixed media on canvas 145cm x 165cm

Sideward direction

Mixed media on canvas 120cm x 140cm

Towntalk

Acrylic on canvas 60cm x 60cm

Twilight

Mixed media on canvas 140cm x 160cm

Windturn

Acrylic on canvas 145cm x 165cm

2008

Elegance

Mixed media on canvas 140cm x 160cm

Enigmatic

Oil on canvas 120cm x 165cm

Enlight

Mixed media on canvas 100cm x 120cm

Etched panoramica

Mixed media on canvas 110cm x 150cm

Going day

Oil on canvas 90cm x 90cm

Greyskies

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Haizy day

Oil on canvas 110cm x 150cm

Harbourside

Mixed media on canvas 100cm x 120cm

Harmonize

Mixed media on canvas 100cm x 120cm

Misty Sunrise

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 120cm

Ninemile

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Outlook View

Mixed media on canvas 140cm x 140cm

Plum Sunset

Oil on canvas 150cm x110cm

Sanguine View

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Scenic snapshot

Mixed media on canvas 145cm x 185cm

Seaside 01

Acrylic On Canvas 80cm x 80cm

The Briny Flow

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 160cm

The Bush Scene_1

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm (Private Collection)

The View

Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Untitled scape

Mixed media on canvas 100cm x 100cm

Untitled scape 1

Mixed media on canvas 120cm x 120cm

Watershed

Mixed media on canvas 140cm x160cm

2009

Barren Fields

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 100cm

Days Bloom

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 100cm

Daytime Roadway

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 100cm

Dusk Dream

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Earthtone

Earthtone Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Field Study

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Impressions

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 100cm

Junkyard Wars

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Morning Fog

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Nelson

Mixed Media on Canvas 180cm x 90cm

Night Scapes

Mixed Media on Canvas 165cm x 120cm

Open Plains

Mixed Media on Canvas 100cm x 100cm

Open scape

Acrylic on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Open Spaces

Mixed Media on Canvas 150cm x 110cm

Open Topograph

Mixed Media on Canvas 110cm x 150cm

Peach Projection

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 100cm

Roadside Strip

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Scape Noir

Mixed Media on Canvas 80cm x 80cm

Thackaringa Dreaming

Mixed Media on Canvas 110cm x 150cm

Train Easterly

Mixed Media on Canvas 145cm x 184cm

Valley Viewing

Mixed Media on Canvas 120cm x 120cm

Biography

Being raised in such an artist dominant area gave me a lot to be thankful for especially a great understanding of the landscape & the colour, and the characters painting them. My intention is to cause an emotional response in the viewer provoking mood rather than portraying a particular message. Exploring untraditional methods allows me the freedom to create multi layered yet constructed pieces mixing oil paint, acrylic inks and glazes with unexpected and sometimes surprising results. By building up layers, I then scrape them back, scratch and scare the surface, staining and masking certain areas, whilst leaving others to shine through.Depicting different moods and atmospheres, creating a sense of movement and the tone of the works create a unique mood while retaining a relationship to the rest of the series.

Contact

email: nikolasdemasi@hotmail.com