Nina studied her BA in Painting at the University of Brighton and MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London where she received the Stanley Smith Scholarship. She now paints in her studio in Brighton on the South coast of England. She swims in the sea most days and records light in the sea, under the surface of the waves and the shoreline. Having exhibited nationally and internationally, highlights include ‘London Art’ fair, Scope in Miami and at Paradise RCA in Milan. She has paintings in both public and private collections in London and Brighton notably 6KB and Alex de Brye amongst others. Last year Nina took part in two two-month research residencies at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton ending in an exhibition in the gallery; a two person show at The Fishing Quarter Gallery Brighton; exhibited in group shows in London and Brighton and painted a mural in an arts festival in Andalucía Spain. While there she researched and explored the sea by snorkelling Malaga’s coastline to experience the corals, sea life and water quality.
She is an abstract painter experimenting with a range of paints and mixed media, techniques and surfaces creating internal and universal scapes. 'I am in wonder of the connection of the repeated symmetry of forms found in nature, from the universe to our own anatomy physiology'. Her paintings highlight humanities disruptive impact on nature and altered states in our bodies through chemical imbalance. Her paintings contemplates the middle ground between what is real and what is not, pushing the view of the objects she paints to the point where they lose their identity, thus revealing an altered more honest and therefor emotive view, that could be looking to the depths of the ocean, into the universe or travelling deep inside the body.
While studying her MA in Painting Nina explored different types of media to open up her painting practice. She experimented with video to create moving paintings, using plastic waste and playing with light and reflection, to highlight our impact on nature. While looking closely at the light, medium and act of painting itself, often showing video/sensory installations and exhibiting live painting experiments.
Nina still draws inspiration from the music of her formative years from dark deep poetic 'goth' to uplifting house music. Being a child of the advent of the house scene she embraced the intense emotional feeling of euphoria the music and daglow nightlife culture around it made her feel, " as if my whole body was filled & pulsating with the music". It was at this time she was realising that there were more ways and plains in which we exist in.
Nina went on to travel in South America for eight months by road through Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentine, Paraguay, Brazil and Venezuela. Then onto Australia for a year driving around the country camping beneath the stars, hiking mountains and swimming in the seas and lakes. The experience changed her life, for experiencing the beauty of nature on this magnitude was awe inspiring. However, this is when she experienced our impact on the planet first hand. Seeing the devastation of trees and wildlife in the rainforests of Peru to tower block size shards of glacier falling into the sea in Monero national park in Argentina to coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.