Jude Nixon

Jude Nixon

I am a visual artist, primarily working in paint, mixed media and drawing. I am attracted to elemental subjects and seek to capture the intense power of exposed northern landscapes and shorelines. My work typically involves extensive fieldwork research (walking, drawing, collecting material) alongside a dedicated studio practice. Working in a quick loose way, responding to the process, I welcome and yet seek to control the accidental within my work, balancing expressive energy with sensitivity to detail. I use a wide range of traditional and non traditional materials including; graphite, gesso, size, pigments and varnishes. By playing with scale, medium, technique and colour I seek to blur the boundaries between the ‘representational’ and the abstract. My work reflects an understanding of place that extends beyond the immediate aesthetic to explore the forces of nature and the history.

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 exhibited. She has undertaken a range of artist residencies. Of particular relevance is a four week research residency funded by Shetland Amenity Trust which led to a rich stream of work based on Sea Kelp
(Laminaria ) some of which she is showing in the Glimpses exhibition. In 2021 Jude was elected as a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland.