Nicholas’ first major solo show is at Millinery Works in Islington from today until November 15th
Princelet St
Ever since I came upon Nicholas Borden working at his easel in the snow on Vallance Rd in Bethnal Green a few years ago, I have been captivated by his painting. In a quietly subversive way, Nicholas has created his own distinctive way of viewing the city that entirely re-invents urban landscape painting. Sensitive to the spirit of place yet equally alive to the abstract and colourist potential of his subjects, his pictures possess a freshness of vision that is as unique as it is unexpected. Hardened by his years as a freshwater fisherman, he is curiously impervious to the English weather and you know that – like Joseph Mallord Turner or John Constable before him – each of these paintings is the outcome of a battle with the elements that Nicholas Borden won.
Fleur de Lys St
Middlesex St
Spitalfields from Petticoat Lane
Shoreditch High St
Durant St, Bethnal Green
Regents Canal
Wilton Way, Hackney
At the Royal Exchange
Queen Victoria St
Charing Cross Station
Charing Cross Rd
Shaftesbury Ave
In Cambridge Circus
Paintings copyright © Nicholas Borden
You may like to take a look at more of Nicholas Borden’s work
Nicholas Borden’s East End View
Nicholas Borden’s Winter Paintings