The Guildford Art Society: Artists : Nola Armstrong

 

'Flurry of Flowers' - mixed media

'Summer Gaiety' - mixed media

NOLA ARMSTRONG SFP

After completing her studies at Homerton College , Cambridge , Nola found the teaching of art and craft to children highly rewarding during her professional career. She started painting for her own pleasure about twelve years ago and particularly enjoys the varied approach of mixed media. Exciting colour is an important feature of her work. Her style is impressionistic and she uses gouache, inks, watercolour pencil and pastels..

In 1999 she held a highly successful solo exhibition at the Showcase Gallery in Bramley, near Guildford , leading to a commission for a series of paintings of wildflowers in the French Alps and regular sales to a local gallery.

She is an exhibiting member of Guildford Art Society and has had paintings in their annual exhibition for the past ten years, winning the prize for the best flower painting on three occasions. She is also an exhibiting member of Farnham Art Society.

As an exhibiting member of the Society of Floral Painters her work is shown regularly at their exhibitions at Mottisfont Abbey, Compton Acres in Poole and elsewhere.

Her paintings have been accepted for the Pastel Society annual exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, London , for the past nine years. She has also exhibited with the Society of Botanical Artists and in the Christmas Exhibitions in St.David’s Hall, Cardiff . In June 2005 she was invited by Salisbury Playhouse Theatre to hang twelve paintings in their Summer Exhibition. In July 2007 she was invited to hold an exhibition at the Lewis Elton Gallery in the University of Surrey with two other artists as part of the Guildford Arts Festival. The Society of Floral Painters and Guildford Art Society have selected her paintings for their posters and publicity. She exhibits at the Bronze Gallery in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. Many of her paintings have also been used by leading greetings card publishers including Medici, Woodmansterne, Museums & Galleries, Camden Graphics and Clinton Cards.

Her paintings are in many private collections here and abroad.