Nick Heap was born in Malvern, 1959. He studied at Birmingham School of Art and having lived in the Cotswolds, Devon and Hong Kong, Nick brings a unique eye to the British landscape. This exhibition presents work created over the past couple of years as he has explored the intense vibrancy and spiritual energy of the Cotswolds, the environment, the quality of light and emotive atmospheric moods.
Encompassing figurative, abstract, paint, print and pastels, small and large, Nick's work exudes energy and joy in the natural world.
"It's unsurprising that the English landscape forms an important thread throughout my work. While I work in different genres, as I feel appropriate to whatever my main artistic concerns are at the time, Landscape is always the touchstone for painterly exploration If there is a common feature that also runs through my landscape work it is theatricality; playing with extraordinary lighting, moods and exaggeration and influenced by artists from The Renaissance through to Kandinsky, Klee and on, to Franz Kline, German Expressionist cinema and Japanese Ukiyo-e prints."
Nick's work is in private collections around the world and also in the UK National Collection. He has been an exhibitor at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery (a finalist in the Portrait Awards), The Mall Galleries and Outlined Gallery, London and Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham amongst others. He has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the UK. Nick has appeared several times on the BBC discussing arts and creativity, including arguing with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, about copyright protection for artists!
Nick now lives in Cheltenham with his wife and no cats (presently).
