Francis Nicholls

Francis Nicholls works are contemporary impressionist landscapes in oil, using thick impasto paint applied with a palette knife. There is a blend of influences in his pictures, and varying degrees of abstraction.  A variety of palette knives are used to create the texture....some are like trowels, allowing him to plaster the paint on in big impasto slabs.

Francis' paintings are more about capturing a certain feeling or moment - rather than accurately depicting a scene or place; a lot are a distillation of ideas, exploring more the colour, texture, and mark-making aspects of applying the paint.