Nicola Osborne is a mixed media painter, creating from her home studio in Benfleet. She studied Illustration at KIAD.
After her degree, she qualified as an art teacher and taught art for 20 years
.Nicola is working as a full-time artist. As an intuitive painter, she enjoys the unexpected, emerging shapes and marks evolve the of variety of mediated. Nicola mainly works in acrylic inks and acrylics and her work is often, based on the natural world, focusing on colour and its effects on the viewer. An emotional reaction to the arrangement of opaque and translucent hues and pigments, is what she strives to achieve.
Nicola employs the language of overlapping and intersecting forms created in layers and glazes of multiple media. Her intention is to promote a sense a of intricacy and other worldliness.
Nicola’s paintings are firmly rooted in the connection to location. The nearby estuary landscape and its flora, are the foundation of artistic exploration By using repetition of symbols and geometric shape, she creates an abstract world.
