Nic Gear's art is situated within a culture of walking, engaging with the nature and substance of ''landscape' as a key source material. Making work that's about Nic's relationship to the outdoors through collections, connections & conversations, using both abstract and literal elements.
Our understanding of reality, what we see, what we choose not to see are a key part of Nic's journey. Whilst stepping out Nic observes the conflict between human need and the beauty of the landscape, the debris, the scars, the weathering, the entropy.
Walking a landscape links his sense of identity & the spiritual essence of place, where he's visually writing about the steps we’re all taking. These threads come together in Nic as an artist who looks to ‘articulate the unseen’.

During 2024 Nic is working with The Armitt - Museum Gallery Library - Ambleside the Lake District UK, as a resident artist. He has completed a series of fungi works that will be displayed along side the fungi watercolours of Beatrix Potter looking at her concerns for conserving landscape alongside conversations around climate change.

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'Undercurrent' 2022
Watercolour 45x45cm
Winner of the Winsor Newton product prize at the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters Exhibition in London 2023