“The prints I create are inspired by my paintings, but are a new take on the original artworks. Through re-imagination and digital manipulation I make further explorations of the subject and create fresh abstracts in their own right.”
Educated at Central Saint Martins, I spent two decades in commercial design as co-founder of a London branding agency. Since 2019 I have painted full-time.
Colour is my primary material: the interaction between tones, their weight and temperature, the way a palette can evoke a place without depicting it.
My work spans large-scale oil paintings and limited edition prints, linked by a continuous process in which each informs the other.
The prints begin as photographs of finished paintings, reworked digitally to intensify colour and simplify or distort form. They are remixes, not reproductions. The relationship between painting and print runs both ways. What emerges in one, a colour combination or an unexpected relationship between forms, can find its way into the other.
The paintings are abstract, layered oils on canvas, drawn from landscape, light, and the memory of particular places. Many are commissioned for specific settings, composed in response to the materials and light of a space.
My paintings and prints are held in private and corporate collections globally and commissioned for hospitality, corporate, and residential settings. Recent commissions include the Chancery Rosewood, Park Hyatt London River Thames and the new Wells Fargo Dublin Head Office.
“Nicole’s prints are another form of translation: of place into feeling, of sight into memory, of one medium into another. Rose’s work follows intuition but is carefully considered; grounded yet leaving room for serendipity to step in. Her works invite you to be suspended, for a moment, between the real horizon and an imagined one.”
Gemma Ebelis, Art Journalist
Clients and galleries include
Chancery Rosewood // Park Hyatt // Baccarat Hotel // Jealous London // Glendye Cabins // Wells Fargo // Bantof Soho // And-Now Studio // Hawarden Estates // Cramer and Bell // Saatchi Art Curators // LLI Design // MGM Hotels // Rise Art // Glasshouse Contemporary // Fresh Paint Art LA // Area Environments USA