Peter Nixon - 1956 – LONDON, ENGLAND

Grace 8 - Edition AP

Grace VII

Reverence

Regal II

About the Artist

Peter Nixon was born in 1956. Early in his career he developed a vision and style of his own. With a background in Medieval and Greco Roman history, which he studied while still young, and furthered by travels to Italy and Greece, Nixon portrays his homage to the eternal beauty of woman. Although alluding to myths and fables of previous times, his work somehow relates to us directly today.

Having undergone a formal art training at Bath Academy, where he obtained a BA, Peter Nixon began to work in a shared studio where he was able to experiment with etching, lithography and serigraphy, as well as to paint in acrylic and oil.

His vision of life gained steady acceptance in European art galleries and by the end of the eighties he was able to set up a studio of his own, where he now paints his original figurative artworks. Peter makes his etching plates and serigraphic stencils at his printer's studio.
 

Style & Format

Nixon sees himself as part of the symbolist tradition, in that he considers the prime concern of art is not to depict, but to suggest thoughts and feelings by symbols. Although in his work the preciseness of the drawing and the realism of the very flesh of his subjects might belie this, he believes the artist must synthesise this impression of what he feels and expresses.

The key role in Peter’s work is played by women. They lounge, meditate and play in a seemingly private world, cocooned from the outside. For Nixon, the beauty of the female form and of the female sentiment is one of the great transcending experiences of life.
 

Exhibitions

Public exhibitions include Barclays BANK IN London, A.B.N Bank in the Netherlands, Coty Cosmetics House, Harrods and I.C.L Ltd.

Notable private collections include Jane Asher, Sir Tim Rice, David Bowie and Sir John Stanley.

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