Nick Lepard

Nick is basically a new artist that just begins his professional career. Some people say that his style is raw, competent and confident beyond his years. like the work of artists he admires, for example, the American writer Charles Bukowski, a 'hard-boiled anti-hero', and British painter Jenny Saville, who 'constructs painting with the weighty heft of sculpture' - "he paints with gusto and verve. he has moved beyond his earlier photo realist style to a more courageous approach that is part 'happenstance' and very much about the process of moving paint around, while still maintaining artistic control. " - says Diane who was very impressed with his work when she first saw it. Lepard’s parents immigrated to Canada from England. Both a Canadian and a UK citizen, he was born in Vancouver in 1983. Lepard graduated with a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 2008. His work is the product of a true artist, it reflects the mentality of the man behind the masterpiece. He paints into a style of more abstract concepts like the influx of media and information on the human being onto the canvas. He produces pieces that reflect the process more so than a planned product: “I find my art never really turns out the way I plan, which I chalk up to the fact that there are a lot of things influencing me that I am either unaware of, or that I don’t want to give credit to.” This is his own style.