Nina Roberts

Nina Roberts was born in the county of Worcestershire. She grew up in West Africa, returning with her parents to England at the age of ten. She graduated from art college in the seventies, after studying illustration and design. Nina worked for London publishers, and then freelanced for The Garden studio, Covent Garden.

In the late eighties Nina and her husband decided to move to Wiltshire, in the South West, where her husband began the long process of opening a stone quarry. The struggle for both was enormous, taking Nina away from her work to help with the business. After the gap, Nina decided to change direction and become a painter and print maker. Self taught, she visited the galleries and museums, marvelling at painters like Francis Bacon and the sculptor Rachel Whiteread.

Through the image of the bed, Nina links birth and death. Her feelings of being trapped are conveyed in box shapes. She interprets the image of stone blocks, shafts and the underground in an abstract way, that screams out at you in her cold use of colour. Today Nina finds herself once again changing direction to work with recycled glass building 3D constructions, which to her surprise compliments her paintings and silk screen prints.

1969-1974 Diploma in Art & Design DIP AD at Twickenham College, Middlesex

Group
Chippenham Museum, Modern and Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chippenham
44AD, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
Lane house Arts, Walcot Street, Bath
The Gallery, Frogmore Street, Bristol
Sherbourne Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset
Prime art Gallery, The Lodge, Cleveland Bridge, Bath
Fisherton Mill, Salisbury, Wiltshire
The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
Wiltshire Heritage Gallery, Devizes
Wine Street Gallery, Devizes
Print Makers Council, Clerkenwell, London
The Mall Gallery, 17 Carlton House Terrace, London

Solo
Prime Art Gallery, Bath
The Gallery, Handle House, Devizes
Hardy House Gallery, Box, Wiltshire