- Venue
- COURTYARD ARTS and COMMUNITY CENTRE
- Starts
- Wednesday, August 29, 2012
- Ends
- Saturday, September 8, 2012
- Address
- Port Vale Hertford SG14 3AA
- Location
- South East England
The poetic and symbolic abstracts created by Nigel Manders reflect his passion for the beautiful open landscapes of East Hertfordshire, where he lives with his wife and daughter, as well as the dramatic mountains and streams of North Wales. ‘For me, geographical features and rural landscapes, with their subtle yet striking, patterns of light, shade, colour and texture, are inspirational and thought provoking. They conjure up an emotional response in the way that a great piece of music can.’ Nigel’s dynamic paintings fuse ancient art with contemporary landscape. Like the artists of the Der Blaue Reiter movement, he uses animals to convey both physical movement and spiritual energy within some of the pictures. ‘Traditionally in art, animals may represent human aspirations and ancestry and this is a central theme in my work,’ he says. Taking as his inspiration prehistoric cave paintings and the vital architecture of Calatrava, Nigel paints organically, sculpting the landscape around the essential physical form. ‘My recent paintings celebrate the endurance of the human spirit and the intense beauty of the natural world’, he says. www.mandersartworks.com
