HAZEL NICHOLLS - PAINTINGS
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This painting is a representation of what humanity has done to the planet through pollution, greenhouse gases and plastic waste. The impact of these issues contributes to global warming, melting ice caps, flooding, extinction and endangerment of sea creatures and animals and forest fires. These are all depicted beneath the lion...the king of creation.... weeping over the planet and roaring for humanity to take action. Some see in this piece the lion representing humanity calling out for change. Others see Aslan from the Narnia stories by C.S Lewis. In these novels, the lion represents God the Creator.
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 Transcriptions of Anselm Kiefer painting. I applied acrylic paint with my hands as well as with brushes and then scraped the textures and applied markings. |  Transcriptions of Anselm Kiefer painting. I applied acrylic paint with my hands as well as with brushes and then scraped the textures and applied markings. |  Turtles are heading home in our lockdown. Acrylic paintings on textured paper. Our lock down is their freedom as nature recovers itself. |
 This is a painting inspired through photos taken during my walks in lockdown of a bluebell wood. I also used other images and combined them to create this painting. This Painting is one of my paintings of six used for my final piece, expressing my love for nature and wildlife. During the time of doing this painting in lockdown I was in a very positive place and felt really passionate. |  This painting was commissioned by my grandmother whose favourite flowers are poppies. This painting is in my truly impressionist style using acrylic paints. |  This painting of geraniums mirrors my frustrated emotions and sense of lost identity in lockdown. Acrylic painting using leaf skeletons and petals. |
 Turtles are heading home in our lockdown. Acrylic paintings on textured paper. Our lock down is their freedom as nature recovers itself. |
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This painting is a view from one of my lockdown walks. I was inspired by David Hockney's paintings of roads and paths, particularly ones where you could not see where they led. This echoed our pandemic experience of not knowing what lies ahead.
I loved the contrasting colours of the different trees starting to blossom in Spring and the way the trees seemed to comfort and embrace us as we walked. We were fortunate enough to be able to head for the woods in lockdown with Ebony, so I had nature as well as dog therapy...not forgetting art therapy!