A quick run through some older portraits

By Deirdre Nicholls

A Scots/Irish artist, I was born in Edinburgh & trained in Sculpture and Printmaking at Liverpool and Winchester Schools of Art in the 1970’s. Specialising in portrait sculpture, I have sculptures on permanent show in public and private collections in the UK and US. The work I’m most proud of is the portrait in bronze of Nelson Mandela commissioned by Glasgow City Chambers. Other works are in the University of Edinburgh collection, and I was selected to show a piece at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023. The piece selected was a resin sculpture in shocking pink of a Poll Dorset sheep at1/3 scale. The three sisters of ‘Hello Dolly’ are on show in the Scottish Gallery’s beautiful garden in Dundas Street, Edinburgh. My latest sculpture is a 1/3 life-size bronze Berkshire Sow, patinated pale blue to recall the jacket on Beatrix Potter’s Pigling Bland, also a Berkshire sow. It will be in the RSA online show for summer 24. I plan to make more British farm animals and rare breeds. My studio is in Ettrickbridge, a beautiful 7- mile drive from my home in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.

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