Learning On The Job

Nigel Mason’s art is inspired by his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire. His touching oil paintings were a talking point at our Summer Exhibition in 2015, where he appeared as an IN:SIGHT finalist. 

  The painter – who attained a fine art degree in his 50s – depicts a variety of nostalgic tableaus, beach scenes and figurative works. His influences include Walker Sickert, Edouard Vuillard and James Whistler, with Nigel considering his work a form of social realism.  

“I’d describe it as small narrative vignettes -or painting versions of film stills – which capture intimate moments in time and observations of life, from the mundane to the profound.”