About

Botting’s paintings are painting stripped back to its bones – the subject and its painter – without any pretense or artifice. These paintings are the visual reaction of an artist responding to the fleeting world around him through the medium of paint on canvas. There is a rawness to sitting in front of a subject and making a painting about it which is grounding and immersive, and which speaks directly to anybody who is looking for a sense of reality and presence.

In a good landscape painting you should be able to tell the temperature and the time of day. So goes the old art dealers’ saying, …