Nicholas Marsh
I mostly make paintings; often oil paint on wooden panels and acrylic on paper currently on a small and intimate scale, sometimes a liitle larger and sometimes I make work employing drawing, works on paper or cardboard and printmaking.
I make art as both an emotive response to, and an attempt to understand - or make some sort of sense of - what it means to be 'here'. Having been doing that for some time the work has evolved through an engagement with both process and language.
I might have a head full of ideas, notions or subjects that inform me – but I now paint quite instinctively and intuitively which allows images to be discovered or found rather than ideas being described or illustrated. I want to explore material fact and yet the ineffable and unfathomable. I want to talk about history; the past, the present, of what is here and of the ghosts that flood in. Painting is the language that I choose to do this with.
Outside of painting itself I have become increasingly concerned with helping a wider community engage with both making and looking at art.
