Sophie Nixon

Born in Cheshire and currently living in Manchester and working from home studio having left Bankley Studios in Levenshulme in 2011. Co-creator of the Sale Arts Trail..Sophie Nixon graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne before returning to Manchester and commencing a career in recruitment. In 2004, she returned to her first love of painting and has been building her career in art ever since.

Her paintings are inspired by her life, the conflict between her busy career and social life and the slower pace of the time when she gets to paint and travel around Italy where her father now lives. These two sides to her are played out in the dramatically different styles of painting; vivid representations of the buildings and people that form her cityscapes, capturing the essence of the sulphur lights and blurred visions of the city at night to the sublimely calm, bright sunlight casting shadows on a lone building or figure. Whichever scene Sophie is painting she is always drawn to a particular person or event.Whilst drawing on life, Sophie is also inspired by other painters, primarily the works of Hopper, Lowry and Rothko and has been more recently introduced to the work of Jock McFadyen and Ben Mc...

Graduated from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne with a degree in Fine Art 1995

July 2014 Sale Arts Trail

Open studios in Sale, South Manchester with group show at Waterside Arts Centre

May – June 2014 Arison Gallery, Chorlton

“New Works” solo show

Mar 2014

“Atlas Bar” auctioned at the Mirror Ball in aid of “Forever Manchester”

Feb – May 2014

Waterside Open Show, Sale

Oct 2013

Charity Art Event Drawing of “The Pev” sold in aid of The Factory Youth Zone

Jul – Dec 2013

Italian Paintings solo exhibition at Parma Restaurant in Knutsford

Sept 2012 Buy Art Fair, Manchester

Comme Ca Art, Manchester

Sept 2012 Arison Gallery, Chorlton

Group Show

May 2012 Lowry Hotel, Manchester

with Comme Ca Art, “Cabin Fever” Solo Show

Feb 2010 Waterside Arts Centre, Sale

Open Art Show

Jul – Aug 2009 Arison Gallery, Chorlton

“These Streets” Solo Show

Jan 2009 – Mar 2009 Augenweide Gallery Munster, Germany

2 woman show

Nov 2008 Bankley Studios, Levenshulme

Bankley Open Studios

Oct 2008 Levenshulme, Manchester

Facilitator for “Fairplay – A Creative Carnival”

Sep 2008 – Nov 2008 Lowry Hotel, Manchester

“As it Happens” Solo Show with Comme Ca Art

Mar 2008 – May 2008 Augenweide Gallery Munster, Germany

Solo show

Nov 2007- Dec 2007 Lowry Ho...