Artwork for Nick Holmes
Art Kryptonite
Mixed Bunch
Alfred Prunesquallor
Karaoke
Goldfish
The Party's Over
My Night With Maud
The Draughtsman's Contract
Details
You'll find references in my work to my teaching career, the films I enjoy, the music I listen to and all the artists whose work I've admired in getting to this point. You'll find the things I agree with and the things I dislike. I often include text in my paintings. Sometimes it's there to illuminate an intention, sometimes to confuse and question what a contemporary painting can be - I try to be serious and playful at the same time.
I'm attempting to put my world onto canvas, to paint a portrait of the times I live in, while paying attention to those who have trodden this path before me.
I am a painter who likes to work on a generous scale, but with an eye to a domestic setting. My work is generally figurative, although I frequently work across genres. I have developed a parallel series of constructions which consist of separate panels which can be arranged in any order. I work in acrylic paint for its quick-drying properties.
I work full-time in my studio at home. I undertake occasional commissions and demonstrations.
NDD in Fine Art, Winchester (1961-65); PGCE, Goldsmiths University (1966-67); MA Film Studies Sheffield Hallam University (1984-5);
MA in Fine Art Manchester University (1993-4); MA in Fine Art Sunderland University (2002-3); Turps Banana correspondence course in painting (2020-22).
I have taught Art in the Secondary and latterly the Tertiary sector. I have exhibited in Edinburgh, Newcastle, London, Ludlow, Bromyard and Hereford.
2021: Fresh Art, Cheltenham
2020: Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Gallery, London
2019: Herefordshire Open, The Courtyard, Hereford
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition, King's Place, London
'Small Works' and 'Unframed', Chapel Gallery, Bromyard
Ragleth Gallery, Church Stretton
