Jude Nixon is a visual artist, primarily working in paint, mixed media and drawing, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art and Leith School of Art.
Since moving to Scotland in 2011, her practice has focussed on exploring the beauty of remote places and northern seas. She is drawn to elemental subjects and seeks to capture the intense power of exposed northern landscapes and shorelines. Her work is siteresponsive and typically involves extensive fieldwork research (walking, drawing, collecting material) alongside a dedicated studio practice. Working in a quick loose way, responding to the process, she welcomes and yet seeks to control the accidental within her work, balancing expressive energy with sensitivity to detail.
The work she is showing at the Tatha Gallery Summer Exhibition explores the elemental power of the ocean and inscriptions and marks that stem from its’ movement and journey. She is concerned however, not just with the physical properties of the sea but also with water as a poetic force reflecting questions of transience, loss, memory, and lament.
By playing with scale, medium, technique and colour she seeks to blur the boundaries between the ‘representational’ and the abstract. To record the tension and power of tidal movement she employs an unusual combination of materials including traditional size, pure pigments (often drawn directly from the land) and handmade gesso