Nina Royle

My paintings use observations related to landscape, weather and time, as a metaphor to communicate the process of painting and an understanding that human expression is intertwined with the physical world. In them, I aim to capture a sense of the small and subjective, sitting within and making the vast; a sense of uncontrollable movement and growth and a tension between ephemerality and permanence in the everyday. Taken as individual paintings, these works are self-contained thoughts or expressions describing my observations. Together as a series, they augment seemingly fleeting moments, into a dialogue or poetic prose that communicates an impression of continual discovery and loss, also a string of encounters, which though felt, can never be held.

I typically work on irregular, hand-shaped wooden tablets, covered with gesso. By emphasising the physical form of my paintings, I aim to suggest a relationship with both landscape and painterly language that is as haptic as it is visual. By drawing attention to the way image and ground coalesce with one another, my work highlights how thought affects and is affected by material form.

Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
Masters in Fine Art
2014 - 2016

Artist in Residence, Slade School of Art, Summer School. July – August 2011

Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
Bachelors in Fine Art 2006 – 2010

Falmouth University of Art.
Foundation in Fine Art 2005 – 2006

2016: ‘Homemade’ Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn Cornwall

2016: ‘Floating Worlds,’ SafeHouse, Peckham, London.

2015: ‘Exeter Open,’ Exeter Phoenix.

2015: The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham.

2014: ‘Thread,’ Flockton Street Gallery, London.