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Villas on Cap Ferrat Painting

Deirdre Nicholls

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 18.9 W x 25.2 H x 2 D in

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While living in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera for a few months, I used to walk around Cap Ferrat several times a week, taking in the charm of St Jean Cap Ferrat, buying a sandwich in the fabulous bakery, and heading slowly south to the Cap. On the way I would make drawings of the people and places I passed. I would stop to bathe from time to time, take in the heat and light, and make more water colour sketches. The far end of the Cap is usually deserted, and I could take my time over some of the drawings. Later in the evening I would shower off the day under one of the many cool open air showers by the beach, slip on a frock and head for one of the beautiful bars overlooking the harbour, for a slow sun-downer, before heading back to my tiny high rise 17th century apartment near the waters' edge in Villefranche-sur-Mer. It was a time of great happiness and I tried to put this into my paintings. There are 16 paintings in this 'Riviera' series.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:18.9 W x 25.2 H x 2 D in

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Working from my studio in Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders. I specialise in landscape painting and figurative sculpture. My pink resin Poll Dorset sheep sculpture 'Hello Dolly' was on show at the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. My three bronze sheep are currently in the sculpture garden of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh (Originally shown at the Cookham Sculpture Festival sponsored by John Lewis 2022). Recent portrait works focus on women writers and include busts of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison and ongoing work on a bust of Hannah Arendt. Work in progress can be seen on this YouTube channel, https://bit.ly/2TWDAlH Autumn 2019 completed a private commission for a statuette in bronze of a pioneer of women’s golf for the R&A Golf Museum in St Andrews. Last solo exhibition pre-lockdown was a series of paintings shown at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, based on time spent on the Cote d'Azur. A series of drawings and paintings of Dorset landscapes and sheep paintings was shown at Aspects Gallery in Dorchester, summer 2018. Portrait sculpture work is in public and private collections in the UK, with several in the University of Edinburgh's collection. Other works are in France and the US. Born in Edinburgh, daughter of a sculptor and stonemason, I was trained in traditional methods at Liverpool and Winchester Schools of Art in the 1970’s and was an early winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries Prize , awarded by the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester in1975. Winchester had suberb visiting and in-house lecturers in the 1970's, benefitted from teaching by William Pye, Norman Ackroyd, Patrick Heron, John Bellany and many others who were both great artists and good teachers. My most notable work to date is a large bronze portrait of Nelson Mandela, for Glasgow City Council. A specialist in portraits from both live sitters and reconstructions, and also a classicist,I created a reconstruction of Alexander the Great in 2018, after a period of extensive research undertaken for an MA in Classics with the OU.

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