Deborah Nickolls

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entrada sandstone, 120 x 180 cm, acrylic on linen, 2003, click on picture for enlarged view

Deborah Nickolls is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools and Central St Martins.  She has exhibited both abroad, at Sotheby’s in the Middle East and Chicago, and regularly in London for over six years.

 Over this period her painting has developed from a study of the atmosphere of mountainous areas to exploring the actual substance of the land itself - developing different techniques and processes to describe the texture and surface of the rocks that inspire her.   This ongoing interest in geology combined with a love of mountaineering and rock-climbing has resulted in visits to many of the great mountain ranges, including crossing the Himalayas from Nepal to Tibet largely on foot and, in 2001, an ascent of Mont Blanc.  Trips to the Andes and the canyonlands of Arizona and Utah inform her recent work.

 She is currently developing a new body of work based on the red sandstones of Cumbria, England.

hidden canyon, 70 x 180 cm, acrylic on linen, 2003, click on picture for enlarged view
Navajo sandstone, 140 x 180 cm, acrylic on linen, 2003, click on picture for enlarged view