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Nicola Jane Philipps (Nicky)
Born 27/08/64
With artistic parents, maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather and sister, plus the in-house influence of the Graham Sutherland Gallery once located at their Welsh family home, it was perhaps inevitable that Nicky would enjoy a successful career as a painter. Well received in the Press, Nicky was commissioned in 2002 to paint a large composition of Ken Follett surrounded by characters from his novels.
In between portrait commissions, Nicky has had six extremely well received Still Life and Landscape exhibitions. The 1997 Solo at The Malcolm Innes Gallery was the most successful contemporary exhibition in the gallery's twenty-five year history. A later solo exhibition of Still life and Landscapes at the Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, opened to enormous acclaim with over thirty paintings selling in the first hour.
In 2005 Nicky was one of two portrait painters whose paintings were chosen to hang at the BP Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and the Garrick Milne Exhibition at Christie's. |
 Nicky Philipps stands four-square in a long and honourable tradition of Western Art that comes on down to us by way of such masters as Manet and Latour, Sargent, Peploe and Cadell and above all perhaps in her particular case, William Nicholson. Nicky's work is to be seen and relished: in the fat lusciousness of the paint, the fast skiddy surface, the broad confident mark, all tempered by the most particular sensitivity to the observed detail.
William Packer (Art Critic with the Financial Times) reviewing her 2007 Exhibition
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Telephone
020 7839 2792
Email
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Selected Commissions and Collections
- Supreme Court Judge Michael Boudin
- Charles Stanley and Co. (The Lord Mayor, Sir David Howard)
- Cazenove & Co (Mr Mark Loveday)
- The Baltic Exchange (Mr Peter Kerr-Dineen)
- The Worshipful Company of Grocers (Lord George, ex Governor, The Bank of England)
- EMI Classics (Mr Richard Lyttelton)
- Mr David Reid Scott
- Mr David Stewart
- Mr Ian McNicol
- Mrs Ray Fine
- Mr James Townshend
- Lord Richardson
- Mr Ken Follett
- Lord Ancram
- Major General Jamie Balfour
- Mr Philip Attenborough (Master of The Skinners Company)
- Mr Peter Pleydell-Bouverie
- The Marquess and Marchioness of Zetland
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Exhibitions
- Four Solo Exhibitions, Arndean Gallery, Cork Street
- National Portrait Gallery, BP Exhibition
- Garrick Milne Exhibition, Christie's
- Family Exhibition, Arndean Gallery, Cork Street
- FAC Annual Portrait Exhibition, Arndean Gallery
- 'artLondon' Contemporary art Fair, London
- Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair
- Malcolm Innes Gallery, St James's
- Malcolm Innes Gallery, Walton Street
Press
- Country Life - November 2003
- The Field - November 2003
- FT Weekend - 25 May 2002
- The Times Weekend - 24 November 2001
- House and Garden - November 2001
- Mail on Sunday (You Magazine) - 28 October 2001
- Homes and Gardens
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Please note this artist is sometimes referred to as "Nicky Philipps", and also (erroneously) "Nicky Phillips". |
