Nicholas St John Rosse Art Exhibition in Birmingham

Art exhibition in Birmingham:

Summer is arriving early at Artifex Gallery in Sutton Coldfield, as during the month of March the upstairs art gallery will be transformed into a beach using real sand and even a few deck chairs to help capture that holiday atmosphere. The theme is to coincide with the Nicholas St John Rosse art exhibition - Nicholas is best known for his figurative paintings of people absorbed in their own individual world, oblivious to outside distractions. Many of these works involve a seaside theme, recalling the fun and innocence of childhood.

The Exhibition is now open and runs until the end of the March 2012…

Nicholas St.John Rosse was born in 1945 in Hampstead, London and was educated at University College School. From an early age he became interested in painting, encouraged and enthused by watching the landscape painter Donald Towner working in the open air and by visiting his studio. This led to him studying for three years in Florence, as a student of the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni and also attending the Scuola Del Nudo of the Florence Academy.

It was during a stay in Spain that Nicholas started to draw and paint people on the beach, particularly children playing and this has become a favourite theme of his over the years. The light, textures and sensations of the beach have featured in many of the artist’s paintings since his move to the North Cornish Coast, where the wild cliffs and beaches provide him with endless settings for his figure and beach compositions.

Nicholas has exhibited widely in one-man shows in London, the counties and abroad and also in numerous group exhibitions including the R.A., the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal West of England Academy and the Royal Society of Marine Artists.