About Nicole Rose

Having had a 25 year career as a creative designer I started to make original art 5 years ago. Following my long career as a graphic designer, my approach to painting echos the principles of strong graphic values – visual storytelling through symmetry, colour, balance, and the spaces in between - but now applied to canvas in an abstracted format. I really enjoy mark making - I find it a very meditative process and the best way to express myself.
I primarily create emotive based abstract paintings of my local landscapes. Using layers of oil colour and a sweeping brush technique the finished paintings take on an ethereal quality, in the space between reality and daydream.
My current selection of paintings and prints are created following visits to nature reserves, beaches and woods where I record sights, sounds, colours and routes taken, to remember and work from in my studio.