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Nicola Beattie

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Oak, oak base, Carved Wood, English Oak, Carved Wood - oak, Engish pink alabaster, Ironstone, Granite, Polyphant Stone, Kilkenny Marble, Bronze, Soapstone, Portland stone,

Nicola Beattie creates contemporary sculpture using traditional materials of wood, stone, and bronze, working on a series of themes. After four years at Art College, specialising in carving large sculptures in wood and stone, she graduated in 1990 with a degree in Sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art, London.

Tall forms carved in wood and stone, much of her current work is inspired by archaeology, castles, and stone monuments native to Wales, where she grew up and has recently returned to live. Her most recent work in wood incorporates a variety of textures depicting the erosion of these castle stone walls as well as more directional carving, depicting the flow of water, another notable influence on her work.

Nicola has exhibited both abroad and throughout the UK; London exhibitions and galleries include: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, The Menier Gallery, Sotheby’s Art Gallery, and Cork Street Gallery Open competitions.

Alongside exhibiting, Nicola has completed a number of contemporary art commissions for both private and corporate clients in the UK.

In 2020, a bronze commission from further afield saw her work installed in Tai Po, Hong Kong, in the recently built ‘Ontolo’ – a new luxury residence by the sea in Tolo harbour, completed in September 2020.

Her work is also held in collections in Germany, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Singapore, the Caribbean, the United states and Australia.

In November 2019, Nicola was awarded The Sculpture Prize in the Visual Art Open Awards.

My current work of tall forms, encompassing both smooth and textured surfaces, is inspired by both water and archaeology in a series of stone carvings and four new series of wood sculptures.
Recurring themes and patterns in my work are curves flowing around the form to more defined edges and openings. These edges are either in the form of windows, archways and steps, or gouge chisel marks flowing up, down and around the sculpture to give a rippling flow to the form. .
My focus is on the still presence of sculpture raised up on plinths and the feeling of peace looking at these large silent forms. At the moment I am working on some larger floor-standing sculptures alongside these interior pieces, and think of groups of these tall wood sculptures as havens; an escape for a still moment from the busyness of daily life; somewhere I want to be quietly in the moment and let time stand still. To me, this is the essence of sculpture, and my aim is to create these quiet yet life-filled forms.

Sculptures by Nicola Beattie

Sentinel II (Tall Thin Carved Wood Abstract Sculpture)

£1,800

River Pod (Carved Wood Abstract Interior sculpture)

£3,600

Paso (Slim Interior Carved Smooth Wood Abstract Sculpture)

£3,500

Sentinel (Upright Carved Wood Abstract Sculpture)

£3,500

Nuance Vessel (Carved Contemporary Abstract Interior Sculpture)

£1,500

Ironstone Flow (Small Round Abstract Carving Sculpture)

£1,200

Contra (Carved and Smoothed Abstract Indoor statue)

£2,950

Core (Ball Shaped Abstract Carved Stone sculpture)

£3,200

Rain Vessel ( Abstract Bronze Metallic Flask Inspired statue)

£2,550

My Cup Overflows (Abstract Fluid Round Shape statue)

£4,800

Radiar

£990

Archae (Tall Vertical Carved Abstract Stone statue)

£3,990

Moonrise (Vertical Abstract Minimalist sculpture)

£4,000

Ebb and Flow (Carved Abstract Minimalist statue)

£3,000

Testimony (Blue Minimalist Tear Drop Shape statue)

£6,800

Blessing (Religious Bronze Contemplative statue)

£8,750

Salmon (Large Carved Wood Garden Fish sculptures)

Nautilus (Big Shell stone Carved Garden sculptures)

£2,000

Ammonite (Carved Stone Fossil Garden statue)

£1,200

Fig Gourd (Big Bronze resin Fruit statue)

£1,600

Wavy Clam (Bronze Life-Size Shell statue)

£1,600

To Sit and Dream (Day Dreaming Indoor sculpture)

£2,800

Slumber (Stone Abstract Sleeping Head Bust statues)

£3,000

Shadow Clone (Abstract Tear Drop Garden/Yard statue)

£4,000

Pod (Abstract Flame Shaped Yard sculpture statues)

£1,300

HOLD ME CLOSE (Loving Couple Carving Garden statue)

£1,667

Asleep On My Shoulder (Abstract Outdoor Yard statue)

£2,500

To Gaze and Wonder (Stone Abstract Torso statue)

£3,500

Mother and Child (Abstract Parent and Child statue)

BATHER (After the Ancient Carved Nude sculptures)

£2,000

Sisterhood (Contemporary 3 Nuns Garden Yard statue)

£2,500

DREAMER (Limestone Abstract Carved statue)

£3,000

Credentials

Public Works

Public Works
Bronze plaque commission for Flagship Housing at the Printers, Papworth Everard, Cambs.
Commissioned carved Cross for Parish Church, Penpont, Powys, Wales 2009
Bronze Kite Sculpture, Chilterns Gateway Centre, Bedfordshire 2007
Carved Wood Commission for Kimbolton School, Cambs. 2005
Millennium commission for Parish church, Upton, Peterborough, Cambs. 1999
Wood Sculpture of Man - Babington C.C. Leicestershire 1991.
Wood Sculpture of Diving Woman - Burbage Junior School 1991.
Wood sculpture Commission for a company building in Richmond, London 1990.

Teaching Experience
Adult Education - Stone Carving County Schools, Cambridgeshire - Soapstone carving

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