Why I paint, where the work comes from, and what I hope it awakens in you. Contemporary –abstract artist Dylan James Nikich seated beside his painting Fragmented Dreams in his Phuket studio. Colour may be the first thing you notice in my work, but it is rarely the point. The real aim is to create something that brings you back to yourself. Something that holds your attention long enough for the noise to fall away and for you to recognise the hidden wealth already inside you—i

I'm sure that if you are reading this then you've likely ran into some of the many ways that 'Fluid Paint' can go wrong. Now I am not claiming to know all of the 'Top Tips' when it comes to this topic, but through my many mistakes via working with lower viscosity paint mixtures I have devised a concoction that eliminates and or minimises 'cracking, bubbles, flat finishes, undesired colour tone and saturation, and colour mixing when one tone collides with another'. So let's ge