I Stand in the Present Moment and Look Forward is a collection of paintings by Oscar Nimmo, created between 2024 and 2025. This body of work centres on the artist's intentional distillation of image-making into its core elements: form and colour. Through the layering of coloured bands across the picture plane, each painting explores varying levels of detail and complexity, gradually evolving a distinctive visual language.
This sequential process has given rise to recurring themes, particularly the act of looking. The work’s overlapping colours and simplified shapes evoke the sense of viewing through windows. I Stand in the Present Moment and Look Forward reflects on the duality of looking ahead to the uncertain future while remaining grounded in the present—an approach the artist interprets as integral to both the act of painting and a mindful way of life.
Oscar Nimmo is an Eora (Sydney) based artist whose work investigates the communicative potential of non-representational forms. His paintings and drawings engage with the viewer’s pre-existing associations with shapes and colours, often drawing on his background in graphic design to re-contextualise these visual principles into images that transcend functional clarity. Each composition evokes traces of language, memory, or emotion, bypassing conventional modes of interpretation in favour of an intuitive, personal response.