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Nick Gardner is a painter based in Brighton. He studied at UEA and painting at Norwich and Sheffield Schools of Art before completing post-graduate studies the University of Brighton.  Lecturing at Sheffield of Art and at the National College of Arts, Tanzania, preceded his move to Sussex where he taught theatre designer/makers becoming in time Head of the Department of Visual Arts , Theatre and Music at Northbrook College. 

Nick’s  early practical experience, which included training as a boatbuilder in Lowestoft, work in theatre and as a jobbing artist informs his exploration of a range of materials which include oils, dry pigments, wax mediums, dirty stuff - dusts and grit.

His paintings explore territory between the abstract and the figurative, drawing on landscape and still-life.  

‘I am excited by the range of possibilities and ideas suggested within the paintings which often start with random gestures or simple divisions of the canvas.  Forms are arrived at and departed from as the layers of paint build; some are rediscovered, most are lost. The paintings are I hope, oblique observations on the world we live in.’

'Catch Me’ - 67 x 47 mixed media on canvas
’Slow Seas’ - 141 x 141 mixed media on canvas
‘Safe House’ - 100 x 100 mixed media on canvas