Nicky Foreman
The collision of two landscapes, those of New Zealand and France, materialize in Nicky’s paintings. This collision is balanced by her connection to both places infused into her work as romantic memories and symbolic imagery.
Born in Taranaki, Nicky Foreman graduated from Elam School of Fine
Arts, Auckland University. Nicky lives and works in Auckland but
still returns to Taranaki and childhood memories provided
inspiration in her works. As Damian Skinner writes "What at first
appear to be small abstract paintings reveal themselves to be
detailed close ups belonging to a refined and highly precise
naturalism... [they] connect to contemporary yet deeply historical
anxieties about place and identity." The signs, maps, and
topographic scapes continue to appear in Nicky's work that reflects
travel, not just travel back to Taranaki but also to France where
Nicky has lived and worked. The stomping grounds of artists such as
Picasso have inspired Nicky, apparent in her vibrant abstract
paintings which are often an accumulation of smaller works that can
be viewed as small icon-like pieces as well as in its entirety.
Nicky's works are carefully balanced so that with each glance more
clues can be gathered about the journeys she depicts.
Nicky has been exhibiting since the early 1990s and her work
is represented in numerous private and public collections including
the Wallace Arts Trust; Saatchi & Saatchi and Jim Rosenfeld,
New York; Ruby Wax, London; and many more. She was awarded the
artist in residence in Vallauris, Cote de'Azur,
France.
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