Minä rakastan sinua
The text series Minä rakastan sinua (I love you) creates a paradise and memories of an idyllic childhood: drawn from a personal memory or a perfect fiction.
Whoever declares their love “Minä rakastan sinua” is a matter of speculation: boy to girl, girl to boy, both to each other or someone out of the picture frame such as their mother or father.
Text first entered entered my work as a student at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in constructions quoting “who is this that looks out like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the starry heavens” from the Song of Solomon or in paintings simply expressing a word or phrase: When Was The Last Time or Sexy.
In one of a series of reliefs produced in 1983 Te Amo was incorporated as a painted wooden cut-out scriptI and more recently, Temporary Sculpture 1, 2008 incorporates cut-out stencil letters L O V E arranged vertically.
Nick was born in Birmingham, England in 1953 and completed his Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1977 followed by a Fellowship in Painting at Sunderland Polytechnic in 1978.
