Artwork for Nicola Currie
Sunlit Purple Iris
A Taste of Summer
Narcissi in a Bristol Blue Vase
Kingfisher on Gold
Summer Fruits Kaleidoscope
Alpine Iris on Gold
Flame Lilies on Gold
Harlequin Tulips in a Royal Worcester Jug
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Today we live in a fast moving society bombarded with visual imagery and communication. For me a still life painting can help us regain the capacity to be still, gaze and wonder. My subjects are the stuff of everyday life – an egg, a flower, a piece of fruit, an isolated pot discarded in a charity shop. The ordinary can be extraordinary, it is just a matter of looking. From each ordinary object an idea slowly develops into a painting composition, which, like a musical composition or dance, brings together colour, rhythm and pattern. Capturing the light in reflective surfaces, or even gold leaf in my paintings brings the composition alive.
Doing what I love on a daily basis.
I am a contemporary still life and botanical painter in oils. Inspired by the beauty of the natural world around me, I create paintings which combine traditional painting skills with a modern palette.
I was Artist in Residence at Spetchley Park Gardens near Worcester for five years and my focus was on capturing the changing seasons. In my still life compositions I often use reflective surfaces to hint at a story beyond the painting. Using oils on a gold leaf surface was a progression of this and I am currently exploring different techniques with gold leaf and oil paints.
I have a degree in fine art and learnt painting at the Malvern Hills College and the Norfolk Painting School. I taught art for 15 years whilst continuing my own art practice. Since 2019 I have worked full time as an artist. I have exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London, New Gallery Walsall, 16 Gallery Cheltenham and had solo shows at Worcester Cathedral and Spetchley Gardens. I am a member of the Society of All Artists and the Society of Authors.
Society of Women Artists Open Exhibition; Finalist in a competition run by Park Gallery Cheltenham; Bath Art Fair 2022-25; Worcester Cathedral;
Poetry and Art Festival ScriptHaven Worcester; Sixteen Gallery Cheltenham; Barbourne Artists Christmas Show.
White Court Art
Sixteen Gallery Online
Spetchley Park Gardens Worcester
Artwork Archive online
