Nick Hebditch (born 1959)
Nick Hebditch has long been fascinated by architecture and buildings, so the subject naturally led the painter to visually-enticing locations such as Venice, Paris, Barcelona and the South of France, and, nearer to home, London’s River Thames. He has depicted everything from weathered walls or doorways to the wider views of several buildings through to cityscapes. He has presented bridges and buildings lining waterways and harbours, including amongst other places the Grand Canal and The Seine. In London works, Nick has produced a series of larger-scale pieces in his ‘Thames at Night’ series, not to mention daytime scenes that remind the viewer of the artist’s unerring fondness of the Mediterranean.
The artist’s passion for colour has resurfaced in recent times, as presented in oil paintings focusing on looser compositions emphasizing colour, as well as in mixed media works. In the latter, Nick builds up images using collage and a variety of materials including acrylics, oil pastel and pencil. The end result with both is a fusion between the observed view and an interplay of colour, shape and pattern.
We have exhibited Nick’s work in France and in London to great acclaim.
Education
1987-8 Brighton Polytechnic PGCE in Art and Design Education
1979-82 Trent Polytechnic Nottingham BA hons Fine Art Painting awarded 2:1
1978 -9 Canterbury College of Art Foundation Course in Art and Design.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
November 2005 – February 2006 ‘Recent Work’ Collier Bristow Gallery, London
February 1997 - ‘Buildings’, Sevenoaks Library
September 1985 - ‘Recent Work’ Trinity Art Centre Tunbridge wells
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
“Spring Show”, Whittington Fine Art, Henley, Spring Show;
Chelsea Art Fa ir;
Woburn Art Beat, Woburn , Bedfordshire;
“A La Folie”, Launch of Genty Fine Art, London;
South East Open Studios ;
Parallax Art Fair, Pall Mall, London
2010
Blackheath Gallery, London
Whittington Fine Art, Henley, Summer and Winter Shows
Kent Painters Group
South East Open Studios
Battle Art Fair, Sussex
Pantiles Edge Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
2009
Floren Fine Art, Poole “Cities”
Whittington Fine Art, Henley, Summer and Winter Shows
Kent Painters Group
South East Open Studios
Blackheath Gallery, London
Pantiles Edge Gallery, Tunbridge Well
2008
“Town And Country”, 3 painters, Broadway Modern Gallery
Whittington Fine Art, Henley, Summer and Winter Shows
Kent Painters Group Sevenoaks School, Kent
Blackheath Gallery, London
South East Open Studios
September Art Show, Wadhurst, Sussex
Floren Fine Art, Poole “Mediterranean”
2007
Kent Painters Group, Sevenoaks School, Kent
Broadway Modern Gallery, Broadway, Cotswolds
Blackheath Gallery, London
Whittington Fine Art , Henley On Thames
Pantiles Edge Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
South East Open Studios
2006
R.O.I. Exhibition, Mall Galleries
Wittington Fine Art, Henley, Summer and Winter Shows
The Watercolours and Drawings Fair, Park Lane Hotel
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
South East Open Studios
Kent Painters Group Sevenoaks School, Kent
London, Paris, New York”’ Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2005
Royal Watercolour Society, Mall Galleries
“Spain”, Colyer Bristow Gallery, Holborn
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
The Works of Art on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art
Whittington fine Art, Henley on Thames
South East Open Studios.
2004
Whittington Fine Art.
Kent Painters Group, Combe Bank
“City to City”, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2003
Whittington Fine Art. Henley on Thames
Unicorn Gallery, Fulham
Hicks Gallery Wimbledon
The Kent Painters Group.
Redleaf Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
Medici Gallery, London.
South East Open Studios.
Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
2002
Medici Gallery, Mayfair
The Kent Painters Group, Combe Bank, Sundridge.
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition:. Mall Galleries
Whittington Fine Art, Spring Show.
Hicks Gallery Wimbledon
Lleweliyn Alexander Gallery, London
2001
The Watercolours and Drawings Fair, Park Lane Hotel
Whittington Fine Art, Christmas Show.
Unicorn Gallery, Fulham
Redleaf Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
The Kent Painters Group, Combe Bank, Sundridge.
2000
Whittington Fine Art, Amersham, Bucks. Christmas Show.
Artbook Gallery, Chelsea Harbour, London.
The Kent Painters Group, Combe Bank, Sundridge.
Bank Street Gallery, Sevenoaks. Christmas Show
1999
United Society Of Artists, Westminster Gallery, London.
F.B.A. National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
Whittington Fine Art, Amersham,. Christmas Show.
The Kent Painters Group, Combe Bank, Sundridge.
The Art of Living Fair, Hever Castle
Bank Street Gallery, Sevenoaks.
1998
Whittington Fine Art, Amersham,
“Off the Wall", Gardner Centre, Brighton.
South East Open Studios.
"Seven" Vortex Gallery, London.
1997
Focus Nine Gallery New Maldon, Surrey
Whittington Fine Art Amersham, Christmas Show.
Headcorn Gallery, Ashford
Contemporary Art Now, Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht, Holland.
1996
Index 96, Dubai.
"Inner Visions", Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden, London.
Artuur Baldinger Gallery, Amsterdam.
Art fairs
2011 Parallax Art Fair, Pall Mall, London
2011,2008,2004,2003, Chelsea Art fair
2010 Battle Art Fair, Sussex
2008,2007, 2005, 2004, 2002 , The Affordable Art Fair
Brighton Art fair 2004
2006, The Watercolours and Drawings Fair, Park Lane Hotel
2005, The Works of Art on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art
1996, Index Dubai
Publications
Various Painting Demonstrations for North Light Books and Dorling Kindersley.
2003 July, “Changing Viewpoints” , ,The Artist Magazine
1997 January, "Building On Buildings", Artist's & Illustrator's Magazine
Examples of commissions
"Simply Open House", London Transport Poster.
Paintings for three Royal Caribbean Line Cruise Liners through London Contemporary Art.
Paintings of New York and Moorish Spain for ETS Travel,
A number of private house “portraits” for Artists in Residence Sussex.
Waterloo International Station and Battersea Power Station for Lloyds TSB.
Paintings around Finsbury Square, City of London for City Bankers.
Collections
Many private an d corporate collections in the UK including T.S.B.-Lloyds, Pizza Express, ETS Travel, Transport For London as well as in Norway, France, Holland, Switzerland, Canada and the Middle East.
£750 - £3000
