Nicola Bealing: Sea & Dead-Man’s Fingers

4 May-2 Nov 2024

Overview

Sea is a series of figurative paintings developed over 10 years from 2013 – and shown together here for the first time. The series started with the simple premise of a single figure largely submerged in the sea – and the contrast that could be explored between what is visible, as opposed to what might be going on under the surface, out of sight.

Dead-man’s Fingers is a body of work made during lockdown when total immersion in an alien world seemed a logical response to darkness beyond the studio door. The works developed into an intense investigation of heightened, imagined sub-marine landscapes.

Nicola Bealing is a painter and printmaker based in Cornwall with a studio at CAST, Helston. She is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.