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Website: www.nickycalverart.co.uk
Instagram: @nicky_calver_art
Facebook:
Business Page (Tutorials & Originals): “Nicky Calver Art”
Business Page (Originals): “Nicky’s Art House”
Personal: Nicola Calver
Visual Arts Association – Premium Member, Preferred VAA Artist
Parker Harris – Art Ladder
Ginger Cook’s Academy of Fine Art – Purple Member (Online, USA, 5 years)
Wokingham Art Society
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society
Developing a Body of Work (30 Paintings)
Goal: To gain gallery representation
2025: Green & Stone Summer Exhibition
“Echoes of Daily Life” (Figurative Palette Knife Painting)
2025: Open Gallery, Halifax – Botanical & Floral Art Group Exhibition
“White Bouquet – Cherokee Roses”, “Colourful Bouquet”, “Blue Bouquet” (Two paintings selected)
2025:
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society – Spring Exhibition (12 paintings)
Wokingham Art Society – 68th Annual Summer Exhibition (6 paintings)
2024:
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society – Autumn Exhibition (12 paintings)
Wokingham Art Society – 67th Annual Summer Exhibition (9 paintings)
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society – Spring Exhibition (9 paintings)
2023:
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society – Autumn Exhibition (12 paintings)
Wokingham Art Society – 66th Annual Summer Exhibition (4 paintings)
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society – Spring Exhibition (6 paintings)
2022:
Crowthorne & Sandhurst Art Society – Autumn Exhibition (10 paintings; photographed with Mayor of Bracknell and “Sossusvlei Dead End Marsh, An Experiment in the Golden Mean”)
2025
Sky Arts – Landscape Artist of the Year:
“Colourful Bouquet” (Floral Still Life), “Baobab – Tree of Life” (African Landscape), “Summer Sunset over Paris” (Cityscape) (Wild Card)
Royal Academy of Arts – Summer Exhibition:
“Summer Sunset over Paris” (Cityscape)
Jackson’s Art Prize:
“Peonies in the Window”, “Birch Copse”, “Blue Bouquet”, “Persimmons, Grapes and Pitcher”, “Summer Sunset over Paris”
John Moore Painting Prize & Lady Grantchester Painting Prize:
“Echoes of Daily Life” (Figurative Cityscape, Acrylics & Palette Knife)
NEAC (New English Art Club) Annual Exhibition:
“Baobab – Tree of Life” (Landscape)
Visual Art Association – Visual Artist of the Year Award:
“Basket Bounty and Chair”, “Peonies in the Window”, “Poppies in the Window” (Longlisted)
Women in Art – Emerging Artist Prize:
“Basket Bounty”, “Basket Bounty and Chair”
Cass Art Prize:
“Pitcher and Plums” (Still Life)
London Graphics Centre – LGC/Theo Paphitis Art Prize:
“Purple, Silver and Gold, A Still Life”
ING Discerning Eye Competition:
“Urban Harmony” (Urban Landscape), “The Swan” (Waterscape)
VAA 500 International:
“Basket Bounty”, “Basket Bounty and Chair”, “Birch Copse” (Shortlisted)
2024
Cass Art Prize:
“Blue Bouquet”, “Colourful Bouquet”, “Venice Canal”
Visual Arts Association’s Visual Art Open Competition:
“White Bouquet 2 – Magnolias” (Longlisted)
Annual Women in Art Emerging Artist Prize:
“Reclaiming Decay?”, “Birch Copse” (Longlisted, Landscapes)
London Graphic Centre & Theo Paphitis Art Prize:
“Baobab – Tree of Life”
2023
Sky Landscape Artist of the Year:
“Summer Blue” (Wild Card Artist)
Visual Arts Association’s Visual Art Open Competition:
“Persimmons, Jug and Grapes” (Longlisted)
2022
British Art Open – Artists Illustrated Magazine:
“The Pour”
My paintings are quiet invitations to pause and notice the extraordinary within the ordinary. Born in colonial Zambia and shaped by life in South Africa and the UK, I bring a global perspective to my work—one that is rooted in memory, migration, and the search for belonging.
As a self-taught artist working primarily in acrylics, I am drawn to scenes where light transforms the familiar: a sunlit village pathway, the gentle ritual of hanging laundry, the hush of dusk settling over a winter landscape. These moments, often overlooked, become sanctuaries—spaces where resilience, beauty, and meaning quietly endure.
Nature’s persistence, the poetry of daily routines, and the interplay of color and atmosphere are central to my practice. Each painting is an exploration of how light and memory shape our experience of place and time. I strive to create work that evokes nostalgia and tranquility, inviting viewers to reflect on their own stories and the subtle grace woven into everyday life.
Ultimately, my art is a celebration of resilience—of people, of nature, and of the rituals that anchor us. Through my paintings, I hope to offer moments of calm, connection, and wonder in a world that moves too quickly.