Nick Schlee  'Recent Landscape Paintings'  10th -25th May 2008

Nick Schlee was born 1931 - Surrey UK and now lives in Berkshire

Education: Art Students League New York, Central School London, Putney Art School, The Slade.

'I like to go out in the evening or early morning when the sun is low and the shadows long with a rich glow on the landscape.  You must discern exactly which visual elements from the scene before you stopped you in your tracks - was it a shape silhouetted light against dark or dark against light,  was it a pattern of colour and shapes, the driving sweep of a field or a fold in the hills?   Then you must pin down these prime elements of visual stimuli and make them the exclusive subject of the drawing."   Nick Schlee
 
Selected One Man Exhibitions:  

Yehudi Menuhin School  Sussex
Wantage Museum
Barbican Centre London
University of Liverpool
Gallery 27  London
Christchurch Picture Gallery Oxford
River and Rowing Museum   Henley on Thames Oxfordshire
Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire
The Corn Exchange  Newbury
The Said Business School 

'Portraits of a Landscape'        The Modern Artists Gallery     Berkshire  2002

'Paintings of the Thames'         Rowing & River Museum Oxfordshire 2004

(The Spirit of the River from Source to City)

Nick Schlee's dramatic works are painted with immense vigour and intuition.  Capturing in each painting the scale of such vast and complex landscapes with little concern for topographical detail.
Nick Schlee looks beyond the material reality, giving the viewer extra sensations and emotions.