Nick Pike

Working from my studio in Stroud, I have developed a style that I refer to as ‘Ghost Impressionism’, primarily achieved by applying oil with sponges, where the location becomes more recognisable than the people within. Translucent figures float through the paintings, reflecting our brief presence on Earth.

My work has been curated in a Saatchi Art online exhibition and I was nominated for a Cotswolds Award for Artist of the Year. I am also a Cotswold Natural Mindfulness Guide, where I organise walks encouraging people to explore different perspectives. Experiencing nature in this way has inspired many of my artworks.

'Square Panoramas' - My current style of painting translates panoramic scenes into square images, thus creating a new visual language and enabling the viewer to experience fresh perspectives of known locations. 

When joining Instagram, I discovered the best way to present my paintings was as square images. I enjoyed this challenge and found myself creating oil & charcoal portraits to suit these parameters - though at this point my landscape paintings just didn’t fit this format. When I had the idea of turning a panorama into a square, I began to realise it would have an instant dramatic effect. Like optical ill...

2025

Sixteen Gallery (Cheltenham) - Group Exhibition - Print's Not Dead (11th - 24th Dec)

Lansdown Gallery (Stroud) - Group Exhibition - Winter Exhibition (Nov 11th - 20th)

The Old Lock-up Gallery (Derbyshire) - Group Exhibition - Halcyon (Oct 11th - 9th Nov)

Sixteen Gallery (Cheltenham) - Group Exhibition - Open Call 2025 (29 Aug - 10th Sept)

Sixteen Gallery (Cheltenham) - Group Exhibition - Wall of Small (Jul 11th - 16th)

Lansdown Gallery (Stroud) - Group Exhibition - Abstracted (Jul 2nd - 6th)

Three Storeys (Nailsworth) - Group Exhibition - Winter Exhibition (Dec 3rd - Jan 5th)

2024

Three Storeys (Nailsworth) - Group Exhibition - Winter Exhibition

Cotswold scenes (Felt Cafe, Brimscombe) - Solo Exhibition

Handmade in Painswick (Painswick) - Group Exhibition

2023

Wilks (Bath) - Solo Exhibition - Nature and Cuisine paintings

Portraiture (Felt Cafe, Brimscombe) - Solo Exhibition

Three Storeys (Nailsworth) - Group Exhibition - Winter Exhibition

2022

Three Storeys (Nailsworth) - Group Exhibition - Winter Exhibition - (13th Dec - 21st Jan '23)

Art in Penallt (Penallt, Monmouth) - Group Exhibition (Aug 27th - 29th)

Nature in the Cotswolds (Felt Cafe, Brimscombe) - Solo Exhibition (April 1st - 30th)

Big Feb Art Sale ...