A full time artist since the early
1990s, Nicola Green produces high quality work with a difference. Using her own individual approach, Green breathes new life into the concept of traditional portraiture.
es and presents her subject in an original and thought provoking manner. By focusing on this one aspect and imbuing it with the greatest importance, Nicola succeeds in portraying the whole subject. Her particular skill is in finding, defining and then capturing an original feature; this is then expressed through the medium of her choice.
Green has an ability to tell stories through her work, in recognizing that the focus of a portrait can be a favorite object such as shoes or a childhood toy, she creates a visual narrative of the subject’s personality.
Nicola Green has addressed stories both large and small, from a family environment where personal connections are made, to much larger scale issues as seen in the works “House Slave – Field Slave”. Although the slave trade was abolished 200 years ago, Green excels in using her work to highlight that this is an ongoing problem. “The faceless people are symbolic of the continuing struggle for basic human rights.”
“House Slave- field Slave” was one of a series of works exhibited at The Dulwich Picture Gallery and The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool.
Although Nicola's main focus is painted portraits, she regularly pushes the boundaries of what is seen as portraiture.
The Laughing Record is a portrait of many different people through the sound of their laughter, The Laughing Record stayed at No.1 for seven weeks as the B side of the 2005 Comic Relief single, "On The Way To Amarillo".
Green has successfully ventured into other media such as visual, audio, sound, photography and printmaking. In doing this she is fusing new technology with an established practice mixing the conventional with the modern, and so is creating an exciting original approach to an old tradition.
