Beth Nicholas | The Work
Statement
The foundation of Beth Nicholas' work lies in the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi: exploring the beauty found within transience. From finding a rotting garment by a stream to a stream of consciousness, her collection travels through ethereal, abstract landscape style paintings into figurative ink drawings that investigate the subconscious.
Working with blown ink, oil bar and water washes she is pursuing the organic fluidity of a natural process where the ink finds a path of it’s own through resistance before being diluted and seeping through into the rest of the canvas. Beth spends hours and hours writing streams of consciousness onto her work, which as a dyslexic, can at times be a huge struggle, but at other times the thoughts flow and the time flies. Her work therefore is about time and energy and expresses and exposes her as a person.
Working with blown ink, oil bar and water washes Nicholas is pursuing the organic fluidity of a natural process where the ink finds a path of it’s own through resistance before being diluted and seeping through into the rest of the canvas.
Nicholas' work is extremely cathartic; she spend hours writing streams of consciousness, which for her, as a dyslexic, can at times be a huge struggle, but at other times the thoughts flow and the time flies. The artists work therefore is about time and energy and expresses and exposes her as a person.
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EDUCATION
2001-2004: The University of the West of England. Ba (hons) Textile design.
EXHIBITIONS
2011 "The Fluidity of Time" Solo Exhibition, Wycombe Abbey School Lancaster Arts Centre
22nd January- 19th Febuary 2011, “Exploring Fluidity”, The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare
5th December 2010, New Greenham Arts Fair
June 2010, Solo exhibition “Weathered by Time” Wycombe Abbey School- Lancaster Arts Centre
Spring 2006, Dartington Gallery, Devon
October-November 2005, The Black Swan Gallery, Frome
December 2004, The Hambledon Gallery, Blandford
July 2004, New Designers, London