Nick will be clearing his studio and transforming it into a beautiful white walled gallery for a show of new paintings from the last two years. The work in this show all derived from the landscape within walking and cycling distance of his home and studio on the Ouse Floodplain.

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‘ I decided to focus on the landscape around me whilst maintaining my interest in the role of photography and abstract painting. The local, already known intimately, became viewed with a new intensity. I live beside the River Ouse, and walking along one of its tributaries, The Bevern, I found a patch of waterlilies. I have always felt that Monet’s waterlily paintings are the most extraordinary explorations of surface, illusionary space and picture plane and that they are key to the development of abstract painting and central to the core of my own interest in the relationship between representation and abstraction, or how the observable world can be turned into painting. From waterlilies to sunsets, … I feel emboldened by the fact of them being part of my local and lived experience and their potential to make the painterly abstractions I’m after. This has been a period of much experimentation and pushing at the boundaries of my practice.’

Nick Bodimeade 2022