Nicola Hicks is a British sculptor and illustrator who had been bought up around art as both her parents were artists. The artwork she creates is a unique combination of natural and organic substances, as her drawings and paintings are of beasts both usual and peculiarly created, while her sculptures are made of anything from straw to stones although her most influential sculptures are those that are made from clay and straw.
The alternative figures she creates are weird and wonderful as the skilful way they have been crafted really brings then to life despite their rough material as she has read the body language of people and transferred that into her sculptures. Her work in general could be described as wholly distinctive as I could always pick out a Hick’s work in a line up as although all her works are different they have a general feel to them.
Her drawings are vigorous, generally large and invariably life-sized, as are her sculptures. As she draws from observation she is given a confidence of the form that is understood and recalled convincingly even if it’s not anatomically correct, this process allows her to reveal the emotion in animals and her animal hybrids.
Research:
http://www.flowersgalleries.com/artists/118-artists/3848-nicola-hicks/#/section-work/
Hicks, N. 'Nicola Hicks' (1999) Momentum
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