Nick Bodimeade
Nick Bodimeade combines formal compositions, glorious use of colour and visceral brushwork to create oil paintings which are finely poised between the figurative and the abstract, and which range from very small works on board through to large-scale canvases.
'I am interested in how everyday life can be turned into painting and the transformations that take place in that process. I love the point when paint becomes more than just "stuff", or when image dissolves into material. There always seems the potential for magic at this moment of transformation. The model for me is Monet's Water Lilies: there is a clear relationship with the observed world but it's also truly about colour, abstraction and the paint. It's a matter of getting rid of space so there is no sense of the hierarchical forms or art - the foreground, and middle ground - to transform it into abstracted, invented space.’
Born 1957, Nick trained at Wolverhampton. For several years he was Head of Fine Art at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College before becoming a full-time painter in 2009, working in his studio at the foot of the South Downs. His art is widely collected throughout the UK and internationally.
