Nick Bodimeade

The two wing-backed, loose covered chairs I keep in my studio have been the subject of at least fifty paintings and prints, and countless drawings. The chairs and the images change continuously. Each time the chair is used, the loose cover, like a badly fitting suit shifts against the chairs armature, offering a new anthropomorphism, and as the light in the studio changes so does the nature of the chairs invitation to sit, and be enveloped [swallowed?].

While on the easel every modification of colour and mark alters the chair paintings’ resonance. This is the kind of subject I like, where the interaction between the thing observed, the hand and eye of the painter and the physical nature of the materials used, produce an endless range of possibilities of appearance and meaning. I also like subjects that we are all familiar with, and have our own thoughts about, enabling the painting to better play its part in the three way conversation with the viewer. Nick Bodimeade lives and works near Lewes and exhibits widely in London and the South.

• colony 48x56in
• pattern dog 42x36in
• stubble dog 2 36x42in
• c6 14x16in

• c2 14x12in
• c3 14x12in
• c4 16x14
• c5 14x12