Nick Andrew Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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I make plein air drawings to enquire, to discover and to become involved with the landscape. Using mixed media gives me a vocabulary to describe my discoveries. Through my studio paintings I aim to distil those aspects of the subject which I find exciting: movement, pattern and complexity, multi- layering.

I studied art and graphic design in Oxford, Cheltenham and London, and have exhibited widely since the early ‘80s with pieces in many public and private collections. At that time my work was entirely urban- based, often large scale commissioned artwork for corporate clients.

Since the mid ‘90s my home and studio have been at Bull Mill Arts on the upper reaches of the River Wylye near Warminster. Most of my work has been inspired by the immediate landscape and, in particular, a stunning three- mile stretch of the river close to my studio, along with adjacent water meadows and nearby woodland. I walk here often, observing and drawing changes from day to day and season to season. In my paintings, I aim to convey a sense of the life, movement and ‘my own ‘solitary involvement’ with this landscape.

As a parallel field of work, I also undertake plein air drawing projects, including 'Sticks in the Smoke' which began in 2016, researching London public green spaces through mixed media drawings and a blog. ‘A Gap in the Market’ in 2021, documented a year in the life of Salisbury’s historic charter Market. ‘SPiRE’: in 2023, making drawings from as far out of the city as possible along 32 compass points towards the Cathedral spire (sometimes just a pinpoint on the horizon). And ‘Confluence’, exploring the sources, tributaries and confluences of the five chalk rivers (Avon, Bourne, Ebble, Nadder and Wylye) which define and shape the geography of South Wiltshire, exhibited in Salisbury in 2025.