Title: Crowned King
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 18 x 24 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement: “The artist is the child who survived.” I take time to honor the kid I once was, the one I still feel close to. that saying is personal to me because I can still remember how I use to think, feel, and make sense of the world.the way my mind imagined things back then, I can still see now. As an adult, I'm grateful that I never lost that vision that I can still translate what lives in my head onto paper or canvas. The child in me never disappeared; he just evolved and today I crown him King.
Title: Learning Through Her Mirror
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement: I use to watch to watch my mother get ready whenever she was going out. I paid attention to every detail. How she moved, how she chose her clothes, how she carried herself. I also remember seeing how much she and my sisters had in common, and how often I felt left out of that world. In that space of watching and learning, I developed my own eye for style, for presence, for taking pride in how I show up. That’s where my love for being well dressed and well kept began.
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Title: The Wonderer’s Home
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement: Growing up I moved constantly, from New York when I was in the 5th grade to Florida, then back to New York. I moved 3x within Brooklyn, in 2017 my mother and I moved from one temporary space to another. I lived in survival mode for 3 years, I was stressed out and lost. I couldn’t call any place home until I was 24 and moved into my current apartment of 5 years. It took me a while to feel like I was staying for a while. I learned to create stability within myself first and then made my home reflect that. The boy who once drifted learned to find peace in solitude, guided by Jehovah God and the challenging and quiet lessons he gave me.
Now, I realize everything happened for a reason. If I never moved to Florida in the 5th grade, would I be having my first solo exhibition today?
Title: Why Can’t I Stop Smiling
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement: I remember asking my mother if I had a father. She looked at me and said “of course you do”. I asked her where he was , she told me she didn’t know. A few days later she called me into the living room. There was a man sitting there, someone she was talking to, I stood behind the wall quiet and shy. I knew who he was the second I saw him, my body knew before my mind did. I remember thinking “why can’t I stop smiling?” and then almost like a dream I don’t remember much else. I only remember seeing him one more time. This painting holds that moment: the smile I couldn't control, the question I couldn’t ask out loud, the quiet knowing that somehow never left me. It’s about what it felt like to recognize someone who is supposed to belong to you and realizing they don’t stay.
Title: The First Born Son
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement:
This painting is a blended story of identity, origin, prophecy, past, present, and future.
I grew up wondering and trying to figure out who I was supposed to look like. What I was supposed to be. But there was no blueprint, no mirror, no model. I had to build myself from scratch, creating an identity in silence, out of nothing, shaping a sense of self in solitude.
I was born out of wedlock and kept in secret by a man that instead of showing up, chose to disappear. My existence started with shame that was never mine to carry.
In that isolation, My spirit and intuition grew strong. my intuition ( my Heavenly Father), told me:
You are the son of prophecy.
Because despite being left behind, I rose.
I taught myself mind, body, soul, and spirit.
I loved myself into wholeness. Not holding any hate in my heart,
but I do carry a boundary I’ve earned and I don’t see it changing.
At the center of this piece is a silhouette that represents many possibilities
the man who let me down, the big brother I always wished for or the man I’m actively becoming. The silhouette isn’t empty, It’s evolving.
Title: Red Pill or Blue Pill?
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement:
Realizing there’s something bigger than you going on in the world something moving, watching, shaping life beyond your control can be a hard pill to swallow. It’s a level of awareness that makes you feel small. Like an ant in the middle of something vast and unexplainable.
And not everyone is ready for that.
Some people would rather not know.
Some people would rather feel safe, even if it’s fake.
So I ask you:
If you had the choice to know the truth about everything no matter how heavy, how raw, how real—would you take it?
Would you open your eyes and take the red pill?
Or stay in the comfort of ignorance and take the blue?
This painting lives in that question.
Not to answer it for you,
but to ask:
What would you choose?
Title: The Greatest Love
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement:
I once fell in love with someone I met in high school and spent nearly a decade chasing that love. I believed in the dream. I took risks. I made what I thought were the best choices. But sometimes, no matter how smart or careful we try to be, pain still finds us.
That kind of hurt the kind you never see coming can break you wide open. And still, it’s necessary. Some pain is meant to shake you to shift from what is no longer serving you.
What followed was solitude. Long hours, days, and months of sitting with myself. Healing. Learning. Forgiving. Being honest about what the parts you I played and the things things I missed, learning what new things i needed and who I was becoming. And eventually, I realized:
If I didn’t go through that, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.
That heartbreak wasn’t forever. But the growth was. We move on to practice better things and learn different lessons that shape us into our best selves. When you realize you are the greatest love to yourself and treat yourself with the love you were giving away or looking for, you make choices that reflect and represent you in your purest intent. You attract the kind of love that you need and didn’t know you deserved instead of what you think you wanted. You shed that dead skin/ old self and step into a better version of you. That’s a world championship kind of win.
Title: Still
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement:
This painting was inspired by the song "Reason" by Cleo Sol.
While listening, I pictured myself completely still one with nature, fully at peace. I imagined swimming at a waterfall, quiet and present, the world paused around me. That’s my natural mood most of the time: calm, still, easygoing.
Water has always been my favorite place to be. It holds me, resets me, and reflects who I really am.
This piece is about that inner peace, that sacred pause.
It’s what it feels like to finally just be.
Title: Simpsons Glore
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 in
Artist: Nicholas Britton / Ttonofart
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Statement:
Created during a pivotal moment in my life, Simpsons Galore blends pop culture inspiration from The Simpsons and The Beatles with a deeply personal turning point — a breakup that led me back to myself. In the quiet aftermath, I chose to walk away from pain and patterns without argument or noise, just clarity.
This piece has lived on my wall as a reminder of that self-reclamation — but now it’s time for it to live with someone who truly feels it.