Jude Nixon

Art House 7
Address: 21 Bath Street
Open: 7/8 and 14/15 September

Jude is a painter and maker who draws her inspiration from the natural world.  She seeks to capture the intense power of exposed northern landscapes and shorelines. She works principally with traditional pigments, homemade gesso and size.

Since moving to Scotland in 2011, her practice  has focussed on exploring the beauty of remote places and northern seas. She is drawn to elemental subjects and seeks to capture the intense power of exposed northern landscapes and shorelines. Her work is site-responsive and typically involves extensive fieldwork research (walking, drawing, collecting material) alongside a dedicated studio practice.  Working in a quick loose way, responding to the process, she welcomes and yet seeks to control the accidental within her work, balancing expressive energy with sensitivity to detail.

Jude uses a wide range of traditional and non traditional materials including; graphite, gesso, size, pigments and varnishes. By playing with scale, medium, technique and colour she seeks to blur the boundaries between the ‘representational’ and the abstract. Her work reflects an understanding of place that extends beyond the immediate aesthetic to explore the forces of nature and the history which has shaped and marked them.  She looks for traces of what is left behind, the residual and discarded. 

Between 2011 and 2016 Jude attended Edinburgh College of Art and Leith School of Art specialising in painting and contemporary art practice. Since 2017 she has worked from a studio at Edinburgh Palate, St Margarets House, Edinburgh and has exhibited her work widely in national exhibitions, solo shows and group exhibitions, including:  

Nov 2023 Ebb and Flow Solo Exhibition Northlight Gallery, Stromness Orkney
July 2023 Horizons: a group exhibition Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay
April 2023  WEST Visual Arts Scotland Annual Show Briggate Glasgow
Sept 2022  Solo Exhibition Artwalk Porty, 21 Bath St, Portobello, Edinburgh
July 2022 Elemental: a two person exhibition with Jackie Higgs  at St Margarets House Edinburgh

In 2021 Jude was elected as a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland.

Website: www.judenixon.co.uk

Instagram: @nixon.judith1

Contact: nixon.judith1@gmail.com