Fast approaching mid-life crisis and other events.

The collages in  “RUN 50!” & “SUPER 8″  and more will be exhibited at Mount House Gallery, Marlborough College, Wiltshire from October 14th to November 18th 2011.  Visit www.marlboroughcollege.org for times.

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Bill Stickers will be prosecuted

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Small collages on board, musings on current events, personal and otherwise.

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Collage has become compulsive and with obsessive cutting and sticking everything becomes more graphic. Words have always been around, now they often take centre stage. The search is still on for the perfect old crumbly crenellated castle.

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Drawings with a little collage

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Returning refreshed to a kitchenesque era, but outside. Here are some portraits or tableaus of people and their things and places.

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Some fantasy places in paint or collage with recurring imagery from the time of Walking and Running including a selection of collages made after a trip to Venice in late 2006 where shimmering colour and glimpses of memory are captured in the strangely solid but elusive.

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There is possibly nothing more compelling than the human face, a subject that recurs throughout the artist’s career.

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These drawings and paintings were made for two exhibitions during September and October 2005. The works in ‘Boondoggle’ at Sieff are of a variety of highly decorative new breeds… earthdog, sheepdog, deputy dawg, labradog etc.

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This second cycle of Dog drawings of 2004 are simple and figurative, a return to the fundamentals of drawing: simplicity of line and essence inspired by a new model: a longdog with four quarters.

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Walking has been a lifelong and daily pleasure, running, a more recent one. Both induce an intense interest in pathways, maps and place names. The activity seems to produce a trancelike state where architectural features, cows, brown paper bags and religious conflict co-mingle intimately.

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This collage in 14 parts came into being over a couple of ordinary weeks whilst listening to and musing on the eternal religious strife going on around the world, the unforgivingness of godly goodness,

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Dogs have always featured in Nicola’s work since, as a child, she believed that she was one. Dogs stretched out on chairs (the soft furnishings of earlier) re-upholstered in the fabric collection and taking afternoon tea and cakes.

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Moving house to the girlishly renamed Damsells Cottage provoked a flurry of unashamed pinkness full of solace and stripes. These images are provoked by the painter’s desire to possess a large and deep sofa, returning to old and significant clothes and fabrics amassed over the years to induce mood and memory.

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A kitchen sink drama performed around the table idiosyncratically describing domestic and pastoral life and related musings in vigourously coloured oil paintings…the table is the centre, food, familiar paraphanalia, family and dogs make their mark. The influence of children, their things, drawings and sayings alongside the enjoyment of words playing together.

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