Carolyn Nicholls

Next May, my painter friend Linda Church and I are going to take part in Brighton’s Artists Open Houses. We painted together throughout lockdown, setting ourselves challenges, studying the masters, egging each other on. We did still life, landscape and portrait. I finally had to admit I could no longer cope with the solvents required in oil painting and I switched to water based oils and explored water colour, acrylics, anything that could make a mark! 

So keep your eye on us and Studio 87 and come and see us in the brave new year!

 

 

I’m thrilled that my painting of Cuckmere Haven has been chosen by The Council fro the Protection of Rural England fro their Christmas card this year. This beautiful place is unique and the environment is very fragile and already been battered by storms, extreme weather, erosion and climate change.

I painting this before Storms Denis and Chiara made their disastrous inroads into the meanders and flooded them. The Cuckmere River, and the valley are at the mercy of the increasingly dramatic weather we are now experiencing. I’m very happy that my Painting  will help raise awareness of this beautiful place and help preserve it.