The Artwork of Nicholas Blowers
Nicholas Blowers was born in Chelmsford, England in 1972. He studied locally, and then studied Fine Art at Southampton, graduating in 1994. In Europe Blowers remains largely undiscovered, but he has already made an impact both in Sydney and Tasmania, where he relocated in 2007. Blowers works on the depiction and experience of landscape elements, chiefly the detritus of forests.
Most recently, in Tasmania, Blowers’s art has focused upon the serially damaged forests and their landscapes. In fact, as an Englishman in Australia, he could be said to have followed a long tradition, running more recently via the painter John Wolseley (b.1938), who settled in Australia in 1976, and historically, the famous emigrant from London to Hobart, Tasmania, the painter John Glover (1767-1849), in 1831.
“An impenetrable dark wall of trees may offer a glimpse of light some distance inward – often a huge gum has fallen, clearing a pathway. A fallen gum will have left a splintered trunk surrounded by splinters of shattered bark. I was recently standing on the trunk of a huge fallen tree and looking back at the trunk, it appeared a totally implausible form, unique and singular like a castle turret whose walls have splintered and fallen outwards’” – Nicholas Blowers
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