We warmly invite all of you this Friday 5th to the official opening of the “Textural Marks" by artist Nicola Tingey.

Nicola is inspired by texture in the man-made and natural world; a rusted boat, a weather worn wall or a broken tiled floor are where she finds and collects her visual language. 

Her work is an expression of colour and shape, processing a visual world through intuitive mark making. It is a diologue between the internal and external world, a discussion through
colours, shapes and layers rather than words. The work reacts to each process applied and builds in response to each previous application. It is in this language of colours, processes 
and textures that she finds something to say.

There are a great many contrasts to be enjoyed in these pieces. It is the process of achieving the correct balance which drives the work to completion. A balance of dark and light, hard and soft, large and small as well as complimentary colours are explored in an abstract expressionist style.

Her style has developed from observing the mark making and techniques of the great abstract expressionist artists such as Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenburg, Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. She is also influenced by contemporary abstract expressionism, particularly the global movement of female abstract painters such as Heather Day, Jave Davies and Claire Desjardins.