Nick is delighted to have been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize for the second year running. The exhibition takes place at the York Art Gallery and runs until the 21st April. The museum writes that the prize ‘champions some of the world’s most significant talent in contemporary art and contributes to a global dialogue around creative practice today. It is a testament to shared creativity in a time of rapid change.’
A 48 page book of Nick's Arctic paintings has been published to coincide with the ‘Arctic Visions’ exhibition at Nature in Art. You can browse through it here. You can browse through it, or purchase a copy for £12 (including UK shipping) under the 'works for sale' tab on this website.
Forty of Nick's Arctic paintings will be on show at Nature in Art museum and art gallery in Gloucestershire from 7th November - 10th December. This will be the first time that so many of Nick's Arctic paintings have been shown together. Nature in Art is situated in a magnificent Georgian mansion just outside the city of Gloucester and is the world’s first museum and art gallery dedicated to fine, decorative and applied art inspired by nature.
Nick’s painting ‘Solitary Berg at Twilight’ has been ‘highly commended’ by the judges of the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Award 2023. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation works to fight wildlife crime, protect endangered species and engage local communities across Africa and Asia.
This summer Nick is showing a selection of his Arctic paintings in the Director's Gallery at Royal Geographical Society in London. Last summer Nick was the awarded the society's Cherry Kearton Medal for his Arctic paintings and this exhibition has been timed to coincide with this year's medals and awards ceremony at the RGS. Though the exhibition is intended for fellows and members of the society, if you would like to visit please do get in touch with Nick and he will see what he can do.
This summer Nick is delighted to be showing eight Welsh, Scottish and Arctic paintings at the Stratford Gallery in Broadway, Worcestershire. The exhibition runs until mid August.
Nick is delighted to be showing 50 paintings in a solo show at the North House Gallery in Manningtree, Essex . The exhibition is arranged thematically across five exhibition spaces: fire, moon, aurora, Arctic and Holy Isle. The show has been very beautifully hung by Penny Hughes-Stanton who has been running the gallery in her lovely home overlooking the estuary of the river Stour since 1999. The exhibition runs until 15th April. The gallery is open on Saturdays but if you would like to visit on another day (other than Sunday) please ring the gallery and Penny will make you very welcome.
Twenty-two of Nick's new Scottish and Welsh paintings are hanging at Sladers Yard in Dorset alongside paintings by Louise Balaam and Alfred Stockham and furniture by Petter Southall. The exhibition exploring and celebrating the phenomenon of silence and slow time runs from 4th February until 18th March 2023.
Nick is delighted that his painting 'A Deeper Presence - Iceberg Off Cape Mercy, Baffin Island' has been longlisted for the wonderful Aesthetica Art Prize, celebrating contemporary art in all its forms. He is one of the 125 artists from around the world who will be included in Aesthetica’s ‘Future Now’ 2023 anthology and online.
Nick’s painting ‘Dawn Light, Cape Mercy, Baffin Island’ has been awarded the top spot in the ‘Earth’s Wild Beauty’ category of the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Award, in association with BBC Wildlife magazine. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation works to fight wildlife crime, protect endangered species and engage local communities across Africa and Asia. Nick is delighted not only to win this highly regarded award, but also to be associated with the foundation and its vital work.
Nick is thrilled to be awarded the RGS’s Cherry Kearton Medal and Award for 2022 for his polar landscapes. The Kearton Medal is presented to ‘a traveller concerned with the study or practice of natural history, especially those with an interest in photography, art or film.’ Recent recipients include iconic photographer Steve McCurry, artists Tacita Dean and Andy Goldsworthy, and going further back BBC Planet Earth producer Alistair Fothergill and Sir David Attenborough.
National Geographic Espana and the Royal Geographical Societies' publication 'Geographical' have both published features on Nick's Arctic paintings in their online magazines this October. You can find them here: National Geographic and Geographical.
This autumn the Crane Kalman Gallery in London is hosting a survey exhibition mapping Nick’s journey as a painter over the three decades that he has been represented by them. Some of the works on show have not been seen for thirty years, and many will be hanging together for the first time. You can see the exhibition catalogue here. The exhibition runs from 23rd September until 30th October. The gallery is open Monday to Friday from 10.00 till 5.00, and Saturdays by appointment.
Nick is delighted to be showing some of his Arctic paintings at the wonderful Sladers Yard in Dorset this summer. 15 works on canvas and paper will hang alongside paintings by Anthony Garratt, Frances Hatch and Janette Kerr in this sea-themed show. The exhibition runs from 15 May – 10 July 2021.
During lockdown Nick spent some time reflecting on the journey he has made as painter over the last three decades. Having been working with a psychotherapist for the last two years he has been able to explore some of the deeper currents shaping the evolution of his work. You can read his thoughts here.
A chance encounter with art dealer and collector Andras Kalman in June 1990 proved to be a pivotal moment in Nick’s life. You can read the story of that meeting here.
Six of Nick’s aurora paintings are on display at the Twenty-twenty Gallery in Ludlow this March in an exhibition of work by previous artists in residence with the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
The paintings in this solo exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery in London seek to explore and evoke the mesmerising qualities of Arctic light, and the fascinating ways in which it interacts with ice and snow. Many of the works are concerned with the remarkable variety of optical phenomena that occur in arctic skies: solar and lunar rings, halos, and coronas, and the fog-bows, cloud-bows and rainbows that arc across Arctic skies.
The works in this exhibition were all produced in preparation for Nick’s Arctic residency with the Friends of SPRI. The work done since his return will be exhibited at a later date but can all be seen on this website. The exhibition runs from 14th Feb – 9th March.
Nick recently returned from his journey to Greenland and Baffin Island as ‘artist in residence’ at the invitation of the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. It was an experience that exceeded all his hopes and expectations. You can follow the work he produces now he is back in the studio on Instagram.
