Nigel Mason
Nigel Mason was born in Yorkshire in 1952. He showed an early interest in art and knew when he left school he wanted to be a painter. He taught himself to paint by copying old masters and his favourite paintings he saw in Leeds Art Gallery when he was a boy.
Nigel had many varied careers including window dressing, signwriting, pub sign painter, (including the sign for the Woolpack pub in Emmerdale Farm), prop maker for Yorkshire TV, featuring an 8ft rat for an episode of Mr Digby Darling and a herd of full sized elephants for Harrods Christmas display, stained glass artist and kitchen furniture painter.
The move to Devon in the ‘80s had a big influence on his painting and in 2000 he graduated with a degree in Fine Art.
He lectured in Fine Art at Petroc specialising in working from the life model but retired from teaching in 2010 to concentrate on his painting. He occasionally tutors workshops to groups or individuals.
More recently Nigel was represented by Washington Green Fine Art which saw him exhibited widely throughout Britain and internationally.
His main passion is painting people, from street scenes to working from the life model
His work has been exhibited widely and are held in collections around the world.