Nick Samsworth was born in Oxford in 1956. He studied at Cardiff College of Art (1975-76), at Exeter College of Art and Design (1976-79) and at Chelsea School of Art (1980-1981). His  solo exhibitions include Fluxion Gallery in Omaha, USA in 2004, Herefordshire College of Art (2004), The Courtyard, Hereford (2003) and Riverside Studios, london (1980). Group exhibitions include The Greenstage Gallery, Bishops Frome and The Custard Factory, Birmingham (both 2005), Hereford City Museum and Art Gallery (2004), Globe Gallery in Hay-on-Wye (2003) and the h.Art Open Exhibition, Hereford (2003). He has also shown at the Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon (1988), ASPEX Gallery, Portsmouth (1983), SPACEX, Exeter (1982), British Contemporary Art, Japan (1982), New Style Gallery, London (1982) and the John Moores 12, Liverpool (1981). Nick has been Head of Art at Hereford Sixth Form College since 1993 and lives in Madley, Hereford.

INSPIRATIONS

My sources and references include ideas about interconnectedness, Plato’s allegory of the cave, primal forces linked to earth, air, fire and water and the experience of the landscape of Herefordshire where I live and the coast of North Kent where I grew up. These are present in the work either through my choice of colour or through the shapes and divisions of each composition.

I feel a particularly strong connection with the tradition of painting as being an essential form of communication. For me painting has its own language and poetry that enables our experience to go beyond external appearances. I am drawn particularly to the work of the English painters Turner and Gainsborough, and also to the work of Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell and Sean Scully.

Nick Samsworth, 2006

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