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Ken Turner

Double CSM alumni - Final year
@goldsmithsuol MFA 2026-
Director @tensionfineart-Sometimes I Post Therefore I Am

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Going through some photos that I took in 2021 came across these self portraits.


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Going through some photos that I took in 2021 came across these self portraits.


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Going through some photos that I took in 2021 came across these self portraits.


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23 hours ago

Going through some photos that I took in 2021 came across these self portraits self portraits.


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Going through some photos that I took in 2021 came across these self portraits.


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Going through some photos that I took in 2021 came across these self portraits.


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A reminder that the gallery is closed until 3pm today. See you then!

OPENING EVENT 3 - 7PM TODAY.
Free and all welcome.

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July

@barbara_nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum @nordiskaakvarellmuseet
Programmed by @tensepressure

The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Sweden, is a dedicated museum for watercolour painting situated in Skärhamn and located on Tjörn Island in Bohuslän by the BalticSea. Nicholls worked surrounded by dramatic, coastal, glacial, geology defined by rugged granite cliffs, barren rocky shores full of numerous reefs, skerries, and deep, clear waters full of streaming seaweed.

“My paintings are not about depicting the landscape in a traditional sense; instead, I am focused on recreating the very processes- the flows, the erosions, the depositions- that form the landscape itself”.

Nicholls has developed her own techniques working on sheets of thick paper placed on the horizontal which connects them directly to the landscape. Using watercolour she can nurture the accumulating residues of pigments adding them to large pools of water. The work dries from a simulated and engineered studio climate as wind over a lake. The undulating paper surface water drains off like streams flowing from a hill. The resulting translucent layers link the work to geological forms and time and so it becomes a microcosm of the world.

“In retrospect, having made many watercolours in the way I do, I realise that to some extent I am redefining or at least expanding what watercolour can achieve”
Barbara Nicholls, May 2026

Barbara Nicholls was born in Handforth, Cheshire in 1963. She lives and works in London and the Peak District, and is represented by Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London/Brussels.

#barbaranicholls #contemporarywatercolours #worksonpaper #attension #londonartgallery


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The gallery is closed today (Friday 21st May) for installation, and will re-open tomorrow at 3pm for…

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May
Free and all welcome

@barbara_nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum @nordiskaakvarellmuseet
Programmed by @tensepressure

The Nordic Watercolour Museum is a dedicated museum for watercolour painting situated in Skärhamn and located on Tjörn Island in Bohuslän by the BalticSea. Nicholls worked surrounded by dramatic, coastal, glacial, geology defined by rugged granite cliffs, barren rocky shores full of numerous reefs, skerries, and deep, clear waters full of streaming seaweed.

“My paintings are not about depicting the landscape in a traditional sense; instead, I am focused on recreating the very processes- the flows, the erosions, the depositions- that form the landscape itself”.

Nicholls has developed her own techniques working on sheets of thick paper placed on the horizontal which connects them directly to the landscape. Using watercolour she can nurture the accumulating residues of pigments adding them to large pools of water. The work dries from a simulated and engineered studio climate as wind over a lake. The undulating paper surface water drains off like streams flowing from a hill. The resulting translucent layers link the work to geological forms and time and so it becomes a microcosm of the world.

“In retrospect, having made many watercolours in the way I do, I realise that to some extent I am redefining or at least expanding what watercolour can achieve”
Barbara Nicholls, May 2026

Barbara Nicholls was born in Handforth, Cheshire in 1963. She lives and works in London and the Peak District, and is represented by Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London/Brussels.

#barbaranicholls #contemporarywatercolours #worksonpaper #attension #londonartgallery


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The gallery is closed today (Friday 15th May) and tomorrow for installation.

Coming soon…

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May
Free and all welcome

@barbara_nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum, September 2025.

@nordiskaakvarellmuseet is a dedicated museum for watercolour painting situated in Skärhamn and located on Tjörn Island in Bohuslän by the BalticSea. Nicholls worked surrounded by dramatic, coastal, glacial, geology defined by rugged granite cliffs, barren rocky shores full of numerous reefs, skerries, and deep, clear waters full of streaming seaweed.

“My paintings are not about depicting the landscape in a traditional sense; instead, I am focused on recreating the very processes- the flows, the erosions, the depositions- that form the landscape itself”.

Nicholls has developed her own techniques working on sheets of thick paper placed on the horizontal which connects them directly to the landscape. Using watercolour she can nurture the accumulating residues of pigments adding them to large pools of water. The work dries from a simulated and engineered studio climate as wind over a lake. The undulating paper surface water drains off like streams flowing from a hill. The resulting translucent layers link the work to geological forms and time and so it becomes a microcosm of the world.

“In retrospect, having made many watercolours in the way I do, I realise that to some extent I am redefining or at least expanding what watercolour can achieve”
Barbara Nicholls, May 2026

Image: detail from After Sweden No.3. 2026

Barbara Nicholls was born in Handforth, Cheshire in 1963. She lives and works in London and the Peak District, and is represented by Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London/Brussels.

Programmed for Tension by @tensepressure

#barbaranicholls #contemporarywatercolours #worksonpaper #attension #londonartscene


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A reminder that the gallery is closed for installation until 23rd May.

Meanwhile, here’s some photos of Andrew Macbeth and @mattlale7122 taken at Andrew’s talk on 14th March by @tensepressure

Coming soon…

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May
Barbara Nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum @nordiskaakvarellmuseet
@barbara_nicholls
Programmed by @tensepressure
Free and all welcome

Sign up to our newsletter via the ‘contact’ section of our website.

#attension #andrewmacbeth #matthale #londonartgallery #pengetouristboard


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2 weeks ago

A reminder that the gallery is closed for installation until 23rd May.

Meanwhile, here’s some photos of Andrew Macbeth and @mattlale7122 taken at Andrew’s talk on 14th March by @tensepressure

Coming soon…

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May
Barbara Nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum @nordiskaakvarellmuseet
@barbara_nicholls
Programmed by @tensepressure
Free and all welcome

Sign up to our newsletter via the ‘contact’ section of our website.

#attension #andrewmacbeth #matthale #londonartgallery #pengetouristboard


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1
2 weeks ago

A reminder that the gallery is closed for installation until 23rd May.

Meanwhile, here’s some photos of Andrew Macbeth and @mattlale7122 taken at Andrew’s talk on 14th March by @tensepressure

Coming soon…

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May
Barbara Nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum @nordiskaakvarellmuseet
@barbara_nicholls
Programmed by @tensepressure
Free and all welcome

Sign up to our newsletter via the ‘contact’ section of our website.

#attension #andrewmacbeth #matthale #londonartgallery #pengetouristboard


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2 weeks ago

A reminder that the gallery is closed today (Fri 8th) and tomorrow for installation.

Coming soon…

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May
Barbara Nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum @nordiskaakvarellmuseet
@barbara_nicholls
Programmed by @tensepressure
Free and all welcome

Sign up to our newsletter via the ‘contact’ section of our website.

#contemporarywatercolours #worksonpaper #contemporarypainting #newexhibitionlondon #attension


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Sunday morning in the studio, reflecting on abstract paintings poised between searching and stumbling—enough structure to hold, enough looseness to breathe.
Slow, layered, controlled-messy: build, erase, rework, resisting resolution.
Not arrival, but decisions unfolding in paint, each mark risking meaning and destruction.
Perhaps meaning isn’t the aim, but its refusal—an articulation of what can’t be touched.
Is there one more move? When is a painting finished—born into the world?


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