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Nina Archer

Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, United Kingdom

I am an abstract painter, living and working near Bishop’s Castle in the Shropshire hills. I am a...

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Nina Archer

Joined In 2015

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About the artist

Nina Archer

Joined In 2015

link - Showed at the The Other Art Fairlink - Artist featured in a collection

(53 Followers)

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I am an abstract painter, living and working near Bishop’s Castle in the Shropshire hills.

I am an abstract painter, living and working in the south Shropshire hills. Following a career in graphic design I moved to Shropshire from Sussex a few years ago and began painting full time from my studio which overlooks the borderlands of the Welsh Marches.

The work is very much about my experience of this landscape. I spend a lot of time walking and observing the immediate environment and examining and absorbing elements of the landscape that are important to me – the textural layering from land cultivation, the linear forms, the shape and contour of the land, the darkness and contrast of the forested valleys, the accents of colour and the changing weather patterns. It is my personal response to the landscape, my line of sight.

I work building up multiple layers with palette knife and then sanding, scoring and erasing to reveal or obscure a memory of something previous. The textural detail and colour is used as a contrast, to focus or balance the composition and although the textures and colours are broadly from the landscape they are not used in any representational way. I like the idea that there are areas in the painting that ...

BA Hons Graphic Design

2022:
SPRING Cheltenham, an exhibition of work by Nina Archer and Elizabeth Cowell 18-24 October
Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, ‘Reflections’ June
Highgate Contemporary Art, London, ‘Postcard’ 1-31 May
Art Auction for GDWD - Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, Arundel Museum, May
Royal Cambrian Academy selected for the Open 22 exhibition 8 January-24 February
Bircham Gallery Holt Norfolk

Solo shows 2013-2021
508 Gallery, Chelsea London, ’Line of Sight’

Selected open calls/exhibitions 2013-2021
Selected for Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
Selected for Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Open 21
Selected for Broadway Arts Festival, Little Buckland Gallery
Selected for RWS Contemporary Watercolour exhibition at Bankside Gallery

Selected group shows 2013-2021
SPRING Cheltenham, ‘The Small Works Show’
Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield ‘Scion’
Highgate Contemporary Art, London, ‘Postcard’
Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway, ‘Littoral’
Bircham Gallery, Norfolk ‘Journey into Landscape’
Emerge Contemporary, London ‘The First and Second Editions’
508 Gallery, Chelsea, London, Summer exhibition
Highgate Contemporary, London, ‘Works on Paper’
Bircham Gallery, Summer and Christmas shows
Highgate Contempora...

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