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Nicola Green is an artist that uses portraiture as a means to describe complex human issues through a powerful yet simple and familiar language. A full time painter since the early 1990s, Green is a portrait painter with a difference. Nicola Green’s portraits capture her subjects by finding the one special aspect that sums up the whole person, be it their stance, the tilt of their chin or the way they hold their hands. It might even be a favourite object such as shoes or a childhood toy. By focusing on this one aspect and imbuing it with the greatest importance, Nicola succeeds in portraying the whole person. Her particular skill is in finding, defining and then capturing that aspect, successfully conveying the whole through it. While Nicola's main focus is painted portraits, she has also made multimedia portraits using film, photography and sound. 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". Nicola's more recent project involves bringing attention to the on-going existence of slavery, even though the slave trade was abolished 200 years ago. Her painting "House Slave - Field Slave" was exhibited at The Dulwich Picture Gallery and will travel to Liverpool to The International Slavery Museum.