Nicholas Juett
Portfolios
Types of Art you will see (The Oak Bistro 2019)
Just works from the ship group unable to fit at my COS location.
Also a key street picture they have used on a special bottle of red or white!
Sponsorship Opportunities
Commercial Partnerships:
Nicholas has sourced quality artisan products and that selection provides the opportunity for future sponsorship to carry into planned exhibitions here and abroad.
Leading into the finished product of oil on linen, are many sketches including water-colours, notated drawings and charcoal. There are also notations in the margins of many of the books read.
Looking for partnerships, Nicholas selected specific artist material brands chosen for their quality. Oil paint suppliers exclusively: Jackson’s, London; Vasari, New York; and Old Holland, Netherlands. Painted on Winsor & Newton 100% linen 13oz and Russell & Chapple’s Belgium linen 14oz. Non-framed, edge-finished with Farrow & Ball “Mouse’s Back” colour. Charcoal drawings framed in either a deep chocolate or sandy thin-frame finish supplied by local framer.
Academic Mentoring:
With the liaison of sponsors’ Language Testing 123, Russell Whitehead has convened meetings arranged to encourage links which could aid the artist in better managing his research into this type of Arctic exploration. List supplied upon request. http://www.languagetesting123.co/
Artist Statement for reasons why this new body of work:
Nicholas Juett writes: In these particular paintings, interpreting factual information in a visual format could have led to some rather dry illustrations without movement, felt emotion or passion: dry ‘reporting’ rather than good fiction. I have always been seeking the opposite and my unusual handling of colour and dynamic brushwork, as well as variety across the surface of the canvas, aims to achieve a more contemporary language for painting that is heartfelt. Finding ways to pastiche another artist without copying has also been a feature of my work, developed when living, training and painting in the USA. Happily, this exploration of my namesake’s journal brings back these qualities which some members of the public may have seen in the Williams Art ‘21’ exhibition where some interesting canvases were exhibited dating from the early 1990’s.
Artist’s Who Do You Think You Are:
Ships, shores, colonisation, mutiny and the beginning of New York: a substantial group of paintings based around the c17th voyages of discovery to Northern America.
Robert Juett, a seasoned sailor, lived in Limehouse with his wife and daughter, who later emigrated to Virginia. Robert died off the coast of Ireland on the fateful return journey aged thirty-two. His life was formed by a particularly fascinating part of history that has resonance today.
Waves of Discovery, Part I (King's College 2016)
“Ships are often the subject for conventional treatment in art, but in disregarding tradition, Nicholas’ work shows us the humdrum paraphernalia of shipboard life: we see huge cheeses left carelessly lying among tools and rope work; we are shown an icy outer world through the exploded side of the ship; and in an echo of the bizarre sight the ship must have presented to the native Americans on the coast of Nova Scotia and to the Inuit in Newfoundland, we also see strangely proportioned barques sailing down the River Cam.
Nick plans to pursue further ways of conveying the Arctic experience, exploring the region without leaving the artist’s studio. His creative response helps give a picture of early seafaring through his research in books, the Internet and gathering information from maritime museums on trips to Amsterdam, London and Lisbon. Reading historical references of the time (not just in pictures) and learning about later expeditions archived at the Polar Institute, has a part to play in a more modern visual response to the early 17th century in this show at King’s Art Rooms.” Nigel Meager, Art Teacher, King’s College.
Waves of Discovery, Part II (C.O.S. 2017)
July Open Studios
Cambridge Open Studios 2019
charcoal drawing into oil painting, pencil sketchbooks, loose brushwork
Bold, vibrant paintings invite you on a journey that binds local urban settings to an historical maritime narrative. Stacks of art at sensible prices.
STACKS OF ART FOR SALE
Please visit the one weekend a Saturday - also a Sunday from eleven am.
This year I have taken the time to bring out art otherwise buried in my studio.
See trade-mark colourful oils sharing a viewpoint of our town-streets & a few remaining bridges over the river Cam – still for sale – only two left.
Let me share with you a choppy path painting both here and abroad. There will be a variety of subject matter both in paint and a range of drawing media including brand new Oils. In addition to my work, prints by William Blake reproduced as lithographs.
PRICING
Payment plan totally acceptable on larger work if you can give me a deposit for your purchase: then typically monthly payments one month at a time. Art to be delivered.
Smaller sales direct bank payment, cash, or check. Art can be taken home.
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU / CARBON-COPY RECIEPT FOR ALL TRANSACTIONS
CHANCE TO BROWSE
See paintings created by me living in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Ohio; and happy times at Wysing Arts Centre near the village of Bourn, Cambs.
Witness a decade of my personal favourites painted right here in my studio in Cambridge Northeast which is (right by ‘our’ new train station, Cambridge North.)
WHERE IS IT
My Open Studios is by bike opposite wiggle ‘tesco’ bridge, north side, at Church Annex. Easy parking if you have to – just come from Elizabeth Way roundabout onto Chesterton High Street, make a right at pub to park for free all down that street. CB4 1DH
SUBJECT-MATTER ON SALE
SUREAL mixed media-drawing, strange & curious from USA times past, all at £60.
GOUACHE prep-pictures for VIP series commissioned by R.O.H. (most Oils now sold.)
MEDIUM scale Oils express sorrow, at a World at War, based on Press & Impressionism.
SPECIAL two works for sale, one hand-signed by World Champion Boxer, other pending.
V. SMALL pictures for sale showing sailors (in Indian ink) into oil-painted ship interiors.
MEDIUM in scale painted loose sketch for future larger-works, up river or on the sea.
LARGER Oils a metre square of historic sail ship as if on the river Cam. More to come!
HUGE and in panoramic format capturing themes exploring the Arctic in the 17th c *
SMALLER and same topic drawing at very reasonable prices.
* Other art for sale located on the walls of The Oak Bistro; celebrating our ten years of a working relationship. See a quality wine with-on-the label MY key painting of The Oak!
PURCHASE from Cambridge Open Studio weekend then go to The Oak Bistro to celebrate!
SPECIAL WHITE FRAMES
POETIC architecture Oils created for Oxford gallery where Brit landscape merges with verges in and around the city of Cambridge as knocked-down architecture disappears.
LANDSCAPE ABROAD DISCOUNTED
OPPORTUNITY of oil canvas cuttings – all for twenty-five pounds each - you frame.
I have taken the liberty to crop larger oil paintings for smaller affordable art.
“Idea came from precedent set by artist David Hockney. Saw documental done on a large swimming pool painting that wasn’t working out. During my time in La la land I was friends with the artist D.H. and he was kind to me, even had me a leaving party.”
RAISING MONEY FROM PRINTS
CROWD funding of a kind and help me in raising capital to plan for more ambitious independent art. I am pricing them at £285 each. Emboss Juett signature optional.
COLLECTABLE lithographs for sale by artist William Blake (1862) “The Book of Job” *
Juett says - “Blake’s Lambeth of London and his utopian view is to me my Fallow-Fields - our Stourbridge Common once the biggest open air trade-fair in ‘Europe’ and today a sort of New Jerusalem belonging to residents off of Fen Road just as William felt then”.
*my favourite musician Jah Wobble (of Public Image Limited) did a CD expressing the poems & pictures shown at The Tate Gallery in London (ages ago). My lithographs reprinted in the 1990s gifted me by S. Keynes are both in colour and in black & white.
ABOUT JUETT NOW
I am still engaged in depicting a response to the discovered journal by namesake Robert Juett and his travels with Henry Hudson while making searches for the Northwest Passage to Asia. These historic experiences manifest in my own journey of discovery as a local boy from Cambridge who sought to leave for The Americas aged 14 and did a sortie aged 18 years emigrating aged 23. Came back aged 39.
I was fascinated, intrigued and captivated by what The States had to offer in a diversity of art and talent so I made it my mission to get a scholarship and emigrate aged 24.
Back, back in the U. K. aged 39 it was while at Homerton College that The University Cambridge Library gave me access to a discovery in their physical index rather than their Newton computer search engine. Whereas – walking the stacks - is such fun!
The expedition of 1609 took the Dutch vessel The Halve Maen to what is now known as the Hudson River, and Robert Juet of Limehouse, London, describes his journey in a journal all the way to Albany (a place I once painted during a residency Up-State-New-York; the painting titled ‘Lamb White Days’ of 1993 captures blizzard snow forest and my family history prior to Internet possibilities).
http://www.williamsart.co.uk/Williams_Art/Nicholas_Juett___Lamb_White_Days.html
Robert Juet’s account as a seasoned sailor with Captain Henry Hudson gave me the drive to explore deeper into those times. I found out about early exploration at the Scott Polar Research Institute as well as ‘internet trawling’. I joined societies and attended specialist lectures. Additional research and a lot of reading finally led to a visit at the Amsterdam Maritime Museum; then Lisbon with many more still to go.
ABOUT EXPLORERS
The expedition of 1609 took the vessel The Half-Moon with a mixed crew (English & Dutch) to what is now known as the Hudson River, and Robert Juett as Mate describes their journey all the way to Albany. The later and fateful 1611 voyage on The Discovery stranded sailors for a year in the southern part of Hudson Bay causing a mutiny. There is no log. Hudson's discoveries laid the groundwork for Dutch colonisation of the Hudson River region, as well as English land claims in Canada. I am conscious of the Inuit and their narrative, me to paint once I have achieved my ambition to be invited as a dyslexic artist to the Artic (sp).
SOCIETIES
Interestingly, haven joined societies for lectures linked to Ernest Shackleton the same skills of survival (well-documented) they equally apply to past explorers and that way extends my appreciation of Arctic sailing. In some way this knowledge filters into Art.
SAVE THE DATE
Clare Hall College, Cambridge University
Starting November and into 2020, special solo exhibition. On display newer; along with past art a select two of each decade: 70s 80s 90s 00s
F.Y.I - EXHIBITIONS CREDENTIALS / PAST HAPPENINGS edited + NEW!
solo The House of St Barnabas, Soho, London (to be confirmed 2020), solo Clare Hall, Cambridge Uni (2019-20); group Clare Hall, Cambridge Uni (2017); solo King’s College, Cambridge Uni (2016); Marshall’s International Airport, Cambridge (2015); Picasso Gallery, Washington DC (2011); Meller Merceux Gallery, Oxford (2011); Williams Art, Cambridge (2011); Reok Museum of Contemporary Art, Szeged, Hungary (2010); ADC Theatre, “Portrait of Dorian Gray in NYC” Cambridge (2010); i2Gallery, Saffron Walden (2009); Primavera, Cambridge (2008); Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn (2008); Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (2007); & Royal Automobile Club, London (2006); Byard Art, Cambridge (2005); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2004); Salon des Arts, London (2004); Royal Opera House, London (2003); Ace Gallery, New York (2002); Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia (2001); Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (2000); Alternative Museum, New York (1998); Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago (1993); Painting Center, New York (1993); Ace Gallery, Los Angeles (1990); New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (1987); “Façade” Carlyle Sq, Chelsea, London (1986); London Rd. Art Gallery, Reading Uni (1985); The Great Hall & “Facade Performance” Reading Uni (1985); “The 4Arts Group” Caius College Gallery, Cambridge Uni (1982); Peterhouse, Cambridge Uni (1981); Cambridge College of Arts & Technology (1980):- now Anglia Ruskin Uni. & The Cambridge School of Art.
F.Y.I - PAST RESIDENCIES
2010 XVII. International Art Camp, Cserszegtomaj, Balaton, Hungary / Invited Guest Artist; created art along with artists all Eastern-Block;
2002-10 Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain / Onsite Studio Artist; private studio to be one’s self and loud music
1993-4 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York, New York State, USA / The Space Program; loft space living as a painter with painters
1992 St. Edna Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts Austerlitz, New York State / Juried Residency; one month sleep and fed free in deep winter snow
1986 Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus / Summer Program; three month in heat sharing with other Brit artists
1985 Clay Studios & Print Workshops, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK / Studio Artist; next door to the police station weird space to work
F.Y.I - AWARDS of RESPECT
2016 Anglia Ruskin University / Alumni, Cambridge & Chelmsford / Contribution to Culture Award nominee & shortlist prize winner
2015 Local Government of the City of Szeged & Hammido Art School, Szeged / Youth Festival Twin Cities Teacher Award for primary school project
2010 Cambridge Szeged Society & Reök Museum, Cambridge / Szeged / Travel & Costs Award as twin city recipient and exhibitor
2008 Addenbrooke’s Hospital, ATC Atrium, Cambridge / Exhibit Loan long-term; and pictures Purchase Grant
2008 Szeged Bridge Fair, Guest Artist of the Cambridge Szeged Society Delegation / Travel Award to Hungary
2005 Byard Art, Cambridge / Awarded Second Prize, cash-prize and pending solo exhibit
2003 Royal Opera House, Nominated by Isobel Johnstone, Senior Curator, Arts Counci / Awarded a commission for public access Art Project; supported by Searcy’s
2002 East England Arts & Cambridgeshire District Council, Cambridge / Exhibit Grant at Wysing Arts Centre for solo show of USA past pictures
1995 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Brooklyn / Arts & Humanities Grant, cash-prize
1994 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York / One Year Artist in Residence / Tribeca; free huge loft-studio
1993 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation & Illinois Arts Council, Chicago / Exhibit Grant; for non for profit exhibit space and two person exhibition
1992 St. Edna Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz / Artist in Residence; month free studio including accommodation and cooking
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago / Awarded ‘Faculty Position’ BA summer school; prestigious as a ‘real’ contract
1992 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago / Visual Arts Scholarship (Double Honours); juror’s took one from another for me
1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago / Traveling Fellowship (Hon. Mention); allowed me to travel to Los Angeles
1987 Rotary Foundation, Evanston (USA), Reading/Cambridge Rotary Club (UK) / Rotary Fellowship (Ed Harris Fellow Scholar); all paid tuition and living
1986 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, London / attended by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra / Façade Gala (my painting echoes of artist John Piper & composer Sir William Walton)
1985 Council & Senate for Arts Funding, University of Reading / Exhibit Grant for Façade; advertised by BBC radio with interview
1982-4 National Student’s Union Funding, University of Reading / Grant for The 4Arts Group founded by myself with 600 members (at £1)
FINI the TRUTH
I am a different artist who speaks his mind. “If a picture can be removed in the World would you miss it? If you don’t then it is a generic image of less reputation more repetition, and of shear boredom to me, you’re welcome to enjoy but it isn’t Art – is it. “