I am a professional still life and botanical painter using traditional techniques in contemporary way. We live in a fast moving society bombarded with visual imagery and communication. I believe that 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. For me 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, brings together colour, rhythm and pattern. The use of light, reflective surfaces, or even gold leaf in my paintings brings the composition alive.
My art training began in childhood and did a degree in Fine Art at Worcester and trained in painting at the Malvern Hills College and the Norfolk Painting School. I am currently Artist in Residence at Spetchley Park Gardens.
I am represented online by White Court Art and Sixteen online. Do look at my website to see the full range of my oil paintings and fine art prints.
Exhibitions
The Mall Galleries London
RBSA Gallery Birmingham
Sixteen Gallery Cheltenham
Worcester Cathedral
website: www.nicolacurrie.co.uk
instagram and Facebook: nicolacurrieartist
email: nicola@nicolacurrie.co.uk
