Mick Mcnicholas

Representational Artist, working primarily in Dry Media.

Following a successful career as a digital artist, my practice led me to develop my skills in drawing originally as a way to enhance how I made digital works, but as I progressed I rediscovered my passion for creating something that is purely from within me. I now see it as a way to express myself much more individualistically than via digital means.

A love of sculpture and an obsession with describing form reveals itself in my work, particularly in the drawings here on display.

I visit galleries and draw sculptures from life. Making copious studies, cocooned from the hustle and bustle, I am transfixed by the masterly use of material, and beauty of the human form. Inspired by the resurgence in the atelier movement, the cornerstones of my drawings are observation, and expressive mark-making.

I find drawing to be simultaneously a simple and immediate form of expression, whilst being an endlessly complex activity that discloses everyday that there is yet more to discover. It is this duality that fascinates and entices me.

2014 - 2018 Various Classes and Workshops:
Andrew James RP / Shane Wolf / Juliette Aristides / James Lloyd / Tom Hughes

1997-1999 Oxford Brookes University
MA in Electronic Media

1979-1980 Hugh Baird College, Bootle
Foundation in Art & Design

Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries
Nov. 2108

'A Game of Two Halves' (Joint Exhibition)
Ben Oakley Gallery
Aug. 2108

Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries
Nov. 2016

Art On The Street
Art On The Street, Maidenhead
June 2015

Works On Paper Art Fair
The Science Museum
Feb. 2015

NO FLAKES
Ben Oakley Gallery
Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2014