Colourful and unusual acrylics.

Artist

Scottish Borders artist of landscapes and seascapes

Claire Nicol studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art. She taught Art & design for several years and now lives and works in Edinburgh.

My work is focused around hyper realistic faces, which are shown through a natural crop of reality. I am interested in the obscure and the uncomfetable in my subject matter, which leaves my compositions as highly detailed snapshot inspired works. My work

Contemporary Visual Artist

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1219 Shelton Ave Nashville TN 37216

Art inspires and takes us home

Documentary and portrait photographer.

Acrylics on canvas

Paintings of cars, figures and landscapes

I like to deal with material that is local, exploring the figure and the landscape as subjects. I don’t use photographs; I paint exclusively from observation and I feel that painting is a fusion of my subconscious and the outside world. I regularly go out into the landscape and usually work on the same motif over a period of weeks or months. I will work on the same canvas until I think I have something that excites me. This will entail returning to the subject at the same time of day in similar weather conditions, working for one or two hours in a session. I want my paintings to be a record of a personal struggle, an exploration that sometimes never reaches a conclusion. The outcome is affected by external elements such as the weather or how I feel. In all of this, drawing from the motif is the key, the image being thus transformed by my experiencing the subject over a period of time. I will complete a Fine Art Degree at Blackburn in June this year and was elected as a member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 2010.

I work figuratively and non-figuratively in mixed media. Most of my commissioned work is in portraiture.