Nicky Litchfield 'Playtime' Print Available

Artist: Nicky Litchfield
Title: Playtime
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 25 x 25 cm
Edition: 195
Price: £108

*Nicky has created a great series of these cheeky animals

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Nicky Litchfield is a British painter who turns everyday English landscapes into glowing stage sets of memory and mood. Born in Preston in 1983, she grew up roaming the Ribble valley and sketching in the margins of exercise books, absorbing the soft greens, tawny browns and pearl greys that still dominate her palette. After completing a fine art degree at the University of Central Lancashire she settled in the Cotswolds, converting an old stone barn into a studio where natural light pours across canvases propped on handmade easels.

Working in oils applied with bristle brushes and palette knives, Litchfield builds luminous surfaces through patient layering. She begins each piece on location, making quick charcoal notations of sky shapes and tree gestures, then retreats indoors to develop the scene from imagination, allowing remembered sensations of wind, birdsong and shifting cloud to guide colour choices. Meadows glow with buttercup yellows, village chimneys rise against rose madder sunsets and distant hills dissolve into ultramarine haze, creating atmospheres that feel simultaneously real and dreamlike.

Her subject matter celebrates the familiar: hedgerows heavy with hawthorn, a lone oak beside a wheat field, terraced houses reflected in rain wet pavement. Yet she heightens reality, pushing tonal contrasts and simplifying forms so that ordinary views become quietly theatrical, inviting viewers to step inside a calmer, kinder England.

Recent exhibitions at Forest Gallery, Stratford upon Avon and the Biscuit Factory, Newcastle have sold out, while private commissions allow collectors to memorialise favourite walks or childhood homes. Whether painting a sweeping valley or a single blossom branch against a window, Litchfield seeks the fragile moment when light turns land into poetry, reminding us that beauty thrives in the landscapes we think we already know.