News – Nickie Carlyon

MY DREAM FOUND IN A PHOTOGRAPH @ TREMENHEERE 2023

TREMENHEERE SCULPTURE GARDENS, Nr Gulval, Penzance TR20 8YL

Upstairs Gallery

11 FEBRUARY – 3 MARCH 2023

PRIVATE VIEW 11 February, 2 pm – 4.30 pm.

Taking A Moment, Maybe a Moment Too Long
56 x 76 cm, acrylic on rough watercolour paper (640g/m)
£700

Also opening of Lisa Wright exhibition and sculpture. Restaurant, garden & shop opening for the 2023 season.

“My Dream Found in a Photograph ….. I was rootling through a pile of books that had been stored away and found an old photo album from my paternal grandparents who in their early marriage had lived in Northern India. I’ve always had a dream of travelling to Kashmir and to discover the journey they made there over a100 years ago sparked a new venture for my imagined ramblings.

Photographs are a frequent material I use as a resource for the genesis of ideas for paintings, familial ones resonant strongly throughout my work. Along with the photos, are some Indian fabrics that belonged to my grandmother, and I somehow wanted to include them in the images for the exhibition. This in turn made me also research Kashmiri lacquer work, its intricate decoration, fabulous colours and stories.

My idea was to limit my paint palette (a hard and difficult process for me!) for the structure of the story, I’ve used colours from my own memories from a visit I made to India 20 years ago… like a faded recollection or photograph, blurred edges, distant images which are hard to define but leave an essence, I suppose a ghost of the past….. I then selected segments of the painting to place a pattern or a story, with no restriction of colour in these sections; this creates a duality in the painting, a story within a story, layers of time and space, a conflict of stillness and business, a real and imagined life.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COLOUR @ CRYPT GALLERY 2022

EXHIBITION @ CRYPT GALLERY, Norway Square, St. Ives, TR26 1NA

23 – 29 APRIL 2022 10.30 am – 5 pm

PRIVATE VIEW 2-5PM SUNDAY 24 APRIL
PLEASE COME AND JOIN ME FOR A GLASS OF FIZZ, CHAT & CAKE

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COLOUR

To me colour exudes joy, excuberance, positivity and a life force.

The scientific definition of colour : it’s a phenomenon of light, defined by hue, lightness and saturation…. From a subjective point of view colour is an emotional response to a memory, dreams, landscape or object. Its how I see the world in reality, my imagination, and dreams. This latest series of paintings are my celebration of colour, the subjects are taken from dreaming, photographs, imagination and observation.

Kashmir Dreaming 45 x 60cm

OPEN STUDIOS @ TREWIDDEN GARDENS 2020

Studio 3, Trewidden Studios, Trewidden Gardens, Buryas Bridge, Penzance, TR20 8TT

(use Sat Nav TR19 6AU)

I am opening my studio from Saturday August 29 – 6 September (NOT open on THURSDAY 3 September) 11-5 pm.

There will be a limit of 2-3 people at a time. We will supply hand sanitizer. Sadly my studio is not disabled friendly but am always happy to bring work to show you.

Look forward to seeing you there! Plenty of car parking and tea rooms are open.

Meditation No. 30

OPEN STUDIOS @ TREWIDDEN GARDENS 2019

Saturday 25 May to Sunday 2 June
11 am – 5 p.m. Otherwise by appointment contact via phone or email.

(I am not open on Wednesday 29 May)

Let’s hope we get some good, hot sunny weather this summer so we can do what they’re doing in my paintings!!

Would love to see you at my studio, No. 3 at Trewidden Gardens studios, there has been alot going on, messing with paint, still using references from photographs…..

“She creates a narrative within her canvases, world-building much like a novelist would do using colour as a portal into these imaginary spaces” (thank you Kate Reeve-Edwards)

Really hope you can make it, tea, coffee and a glass of something cool & refreshing (alcoholic or not) oh and obviously a load of chat!!!