Nicola Smith

FigurativePortraitureLandscapeStill life

14 Mar

I’m a contemporary artist working in the classical tradition. I usually paint in oils. Before taking up brushes and starting to paint, I taught art history at the University of Buckingham. I then studied portraiture at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. I love painting portraits and find personality in still life and landscape as well.

My pictures have been exhibited both locally and nationally. I have been a finalist in the National Open Art Competition, and my paintings have been selected and shown as part of Artists and Illustrators Artists of the Year and Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibitions at the Mall Galleries.

Oil

Wolfango Chiappella

I’m a British-Italian artist, based in Buckinghamshire but originally from the rolling hills of Piedmont, Italy. I paint mostly in oils, working from memory, sketches, and those quiet moments when a place stops you mid-step.

My work tends to orbit around landscapes — not the grand postcard kind, but the everyday corners where light, sky, and earth have a quiet conversation. I’m drawn to the shifts in weather, the worn paths, the way a tree can lean into a field like it's got a story to tell.

I’m not much for big statements. I paint what I notice, and sometimes what I miss. Sometimes I’m chasing a real memory, sometimes it’s the feeling of one.

Each painting is a small attempt to hold onto something fleeting — a sky clearing after rain, the gold haze of a summer field, the hush just before dusk. If you find a bit of yourself in any of them, then the painting’s done its job.

https://wolfango.com

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