Nickie Carlyon

A Few of My Favourite Things – Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance

Objects, things, possessions we surround ourselves with these, I’ve taken a few from my home or travels, photographed, photocopied and changed their environments, played with the images and given them a dialogue and story. Utterly incongruous and surreal but the joy of play is a quality we forget to do in our so-called adulthood …. But boy I’ve enjoyed playing with imagery, materials and words for titles.

: War of The Roses SOLD

: How Much Is That Doggy in the Window

: If You Go Down to The Woods Today

: Wild, Wild West Here We Come

: Jane Austens’ Bete Noire

: Bid For Freedom

: Devil On Horseback

: Bad Hair Day SOLD

: Fairy (She’s No Angel) on Horseback

: Life Off The Teapot SOLD

: Escape to The Country

: Acrobatics SOLD

: Angels on Plinths SOLD

: Patsy & Eddie SOLD

: Spinning Hoops

: Dangling The Carrot! SOLD

: Beware Of Giving Your Heart To A Dog To Tear

: By The LIght Of The Silvery Moon

: The Horse

: Always The Bridesmaid Never The Bride

EXHIBITION Daisy Laing, Chapel Street, Penzance

Private View Friday 30 November 6-8
30 November – 30 December
Opening Hours:

Prince & Pilgrim Gallery, Charlestown Open House

Quay Road II

: Wreckers & Kelly’s Ice Cream

: The Office!

: Regatta Flags

: One Fluffy White Cloud

: No Dogs

: My First & Last Home

: Harbour View

Late this September, Prince & Pilgrim Gallery will be opening up their seaside home in Charlestown, a historical harbourside village in South Cornwall. I will be showing artwork relating to this wonderful place, its history and charm. If you’re in the area it would be lovely to see you over the weekend.

Quay Road, Charlestown

PREVIEW NIGHT: FRIDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER, 6PM TO 8PM
SATURDAY 23RD AND SUNDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER: 11AM – 6PM
MONDAY 25TH TO THURSDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER: 11AM – 4PM

Summer 2017

In My Mothers Footsteps – The Engine Room, Exchange Gallery, Princes Street, Penzance 27 May – 14 July 2017 OPEN STUDIOS – Studio 3, Trewidden Studios, Trewidden Gardens, Penzance 27 May – 4 June (NOTE: NOT OPEN ON … Continue reading →

In My Mother’s Footsteps

EXHIBITION – IN MY MOTHER’S FOOTSTEPS – The Engine Room, Exchange Gallery, Princes Street, Penzance.

27 May – 14 July 2017.

My Mum, Elspeth, was born in 1926 on Vancover Island, Canada where she lived until the family moved to the Cornwall in 1933. Recently I found an envelope of negatives, which I had developed, the photographs showed the early days of the life on a smallholding the family owned at the foothill of Tzouhalem mountain and the childhood idle of Elspeth and her brother, Grenville.

Elspeth is now 90, she has dementia, these photographs are memories of a precious and distant time that she remembers with amazing clarity. They prompt conversations, laughter and tears which I have been recording, and every time we look at these together, another recollection like names of the dogs, people and their significance in Elspeth’s early childhood days.

These photographs have also given me a rich source of inspiration for a series of paintings, these are my imaginings of the colour and world where Mum lived. They are between reality and a dream place, they are the past which I am trying to rekindle so Mum can remember.

“Memories are the loveliest thing, they last from day to day.
They can’t get lost, they don’t wear out, and can’t be given away” Anonymous