“Nicholas’ work has found a way of turning Courbet’s ‘Origin of the Universe’ into a Pink Floyd light show on the underbelly of 1978 Mercedes Benz. His paintings turn pain into pathos and puncture the surface of the dot matrix pattern of the be-thonged power skating beauty of Venice Beach.” Vincent Dermody, 2008

The current work centers on ideas of corruption, debauchery- the darker side of life’s façade. These ideas are explored through images of daily life, portraits, found materials.

The work is mainly organic and reactionary- a direct response to the hidden angles of the complacent. Photographic sources, those taken, found, reproduced, appropriated, create a wide base to work from, and this has lead to an artistic practice that treats collage/montage, printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture on equal footing. As they mix and inform one another, the sum of the parts create only new tangents to deconstruct- never really becoming whole. Underlying the entirety of the work is the discovery of how images can or cannot function and what happens as they are corrupted, manipulated, deconstructed and combined.