A VISUAL FEAST WORDS LIZ FRENCH
Nicola Bennett paints food. Literally and figuratively. If the subject matter includes aubergine, she mixes her water-based oil paints and tests the colour on an eggplant till she gets it right, doing this with every ingredient in the work. This suggests she might paint still life. Anything but! Nicola’s works are an exuberant abstract expression of her themes, predominantly food in all its glory and the happy associations it evokes. To paint food with such passion one must love it.
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