Nicholas Peall

Born Sussex, UK. Lives and works in London

I’m interested in how we process and view the world; the systems and rituals that we undergo in our daily lives. My work is fuelled by modern-day anxiety and the yearning for spiritual freedom which, in our age of electronic chaos, can be hard to achieve.

Multiple drawings created from an array of personal experiences, thoughts and ideas are collaged to form the basis of my paintings. Mostly drawn from memory, these create a further blurring of reality. And through the physical material of paint, forms shift again and again as I grapple with the elusive qualities to achieve a completed image. Only after some discomfort with the process and some searching does the final image start to reveal itself.

Turps Painting Programme
University of Gloucester, Fine Art, 1st Class

- Art Car Boot Fair, Granary Square, Kings Cross
- 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, selected by Grayson Perry
- Flowers Central, Artist of the day, group show with Turps
- Set 24, The Art Academy
- Open Studio Turps Art School
- Hermoine Hammond Drawing Prize, organised by the Mall Galleries
- Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries