Dee Nickerson featured at Eden Gallery in Lichfield

Dee Nickerson’s paintings are inspired by her gentle observation of the natural world around her remote home in Suffolk, and informed by her deep understanding of everyday country life through the changing seasons. By taking these references, Dee combines them with memories past and present along with a lifelong love of fashion and textile design, to create pictorial stories that lead the observer into a tranquil world.

Dee includes elegantly stylised figures in her paintings, singly or in intimate conversation or activity, often walking with dogs, cats and horses, across fields, through woodland or besides the sea.

The changing seasons, recorded in their different colour palettes, the blustery wind, the cold of winter or the warmth of spring captured in these images make Dee Nickerson a very special artist whose character shines through her work.

“Some of my characters are based on an imaginary self. It’s not necessarily me exactly, but it might represent how I might feel at that moment. I reach out to people by painting moments we all share.” Dee Nickerson