NICKY PERKIN

A fascination with the expansiveness of the Australian landscape forms the inspiration for Nicky’s ethereal abstracted landscape oil paintings.

Nicky’s abstracted landscapes are created with a focus on a limited palette of colours tied to the landscape.   Some works are textured, echoing the texture in the landscape, others are built up layers of colour capturing the changing light.

There is a deliberate silence to Nicky’s paintings, by presenting the viewer with a void.  It is in our nature to fill that void, bringing our own interpretation to the viewing, remembering a similar journey or view.

A recurring theme in Nicky’s paintings is her response to the Australian landscape.  Born in London Nicky only saw the horizon once a year whilst on the annual family seaside holiday.  As a consequence, she is fascinated by the vastness of Australia and its ever-present horizon line.  Nicky explores her response to this landscape to find her sense of place.

Now that Nicky lives permanently by the ocean the influences are changing, lines left by the tide on the sand, the dry, weathered cliff and ridge forms, the vastness of the horizon and the changing light.

” I strongly relate to Robert Ryman’s interest in the physical properties of painting; that is the application of paint on a surface rather than any concern with creating an image.  Another, more contemporary influence, would be Scottish painter Callum Innes who also explores the possibilities of paint on canvas by voiding areas of his monochromes through rubbing away the paint with turps, I endlessly apply pigment and rub or scratch it away to reveal the surface underneath.”  Nicky Perkin.