Medina gardens by the sea

Inspired by the Medina area of Hove, in soft chalky pink and blue palette, with the wind farm on the horizon, the white seafront shelter, seagulls and gardens, from series of 'framescapes' which are painted across a central wooden panel & frame, the landscape continuing uninterrupted from image into surround. Intimate enough to hold, designed to reward close looking, each is a complete world in miniature.

Indian ink painting on bespoke wood framed panel.

Dimensions: 23.5 x 20 cm.

About the artist:
Nichola Campbell is a Sussex-based artist working in Indian inks, an ancient luminous medium whose sparkling intensity & immediacy suits her deeply instinctive way of working. She paints from feeling rather than formula, from memory rather than location, drawn always by the particular quality of light, colour & atmosphere that Sussex offers in such extraordinary abundance. Her Framescapes are small paintings which dissolve the boundary between painting & object. Working on wooden framed panels, the landscape continues across both the central panel & frame - the sky, sea, meadow, light, flowing uninterrupted from image into surround. Intimate enough to hold, designed to reward close looking, each is a complete world in miniature. She is drawn instinctively to break convention - light & atmosphere were subjects in their own right, the frame is more than a boundary, her subjects familiar but seen afresh from somewhere deeper & less easily explained.