Niki Hare

b 1971 UK

Self taught artist working with many mediums but liking paint the best.
Painting is just a language that I am more comfortable with, it has an honesty, it is what it is. My work is very unprocessed, direct, I don't see as I paint , just look at it sometime later, then start again or leave it alone until another time. I work with layers, building them up and scraping back, finding stuff I had forgotten about, the painting starts to get interesting, to develop its own past. The word paintings write themselves with no restraint, if I'm not sure I keep writing over, but ultimately the words, however buried, have been said.

very little

Wells Art Contemporary,joint winner of the JGM gallery prize. 2020
RWA 167 Annual Open, I have a nice circular text based work showing here. The exhibition runs from 29th September til 1st December. The works are also available to buy online, browse rwa.org.uk
RWA 166 Annual Open, I have a sculpture exhibited here, Blue Bird. Much surprised it was selected!
RWA 165 Annual Open, delighted to have 2 works exhibited here, exhibition running from 1st Oct till 3rd Dec, Clifton , Bristol.
Phantom, 26th Jan to 18th Feb 2017, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
RWA Annual Open, Bristol, 9th Oct-27th Nov 2016
EWAAC 16, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London, 18th-22nd October 2016
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (17th -27th Nov), 3 works selected
Exhibition by David Simon Contemporary at The Slaughters Manor House, http://www.slaughtersmanor.co.uk
Solo exhibition of mountains in the amazing new exhibition space in the refurbished Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, 9th Oct onwards.
RWA Autumn Open, Bristol
June 5th-7th, The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini, Bristol
May 9th-June 6th, David Simon Contemporary, Bath
May 2015, the open west 2015, The Wilson, Cheltenham
March 2015, DRAWN, RWA, Br...