Hannah Nickolls

Hannah Nickolls

Hannah Nickolls is a pasionate painter, print maker and book maker. she is an artist that loves life and expresses her heart and soul through the making of her work. "Art is my life, my paintings are like the pages in a book, every brush stroke, pigment and texture tells a story, without the pages my soul would be a blank canvas and I would not exist"

Hannah Nickolls grew up around the kentish coast line. She started painting at primary school and at the age of 13 she sold her first painting. At the age of 16 in her final year of college, Hannah had a accident in which she fractured her spine. After having extensive surgery and suffering several years of complications, it was art that saved her life. Since then her work has grown, undergoing various stages of experimentation. Hannah Nickolls vibrant and dramatically subliminal work is often drawn from the war in her own life and the battles we have to face in everyday life, past and present. Inspired by music, poetry and literature, themes often explore humanity, nature and the memories of history in the modern world today. Romanticism, and Abstract expressionism play an important role in the development of her creations. After several years out, Hannah Nick...

Hannah studied art and design at Canterbury college in 2000, after an accident she went back to Ashford art college to study digital manipulation and then went on to study her BA honours degree in Visual arts with Greenwich University in 2009. She received a first class honours degree and a first in her dissertation. She was awarded the Greenwich Avery Hill award for art in 2011.