Much of Nicholas’ subject matter focuses on the architecture in cities of Europe and Australia. He concentrates on specific aspects of the architecture as he believes it allows the viewer to focus their attention on the buildings’ abstract design, textured finishes and composition, rather than the whole image.
Nicholas thoroughly enjoys painting this subject matter as the paintings are extremely technical and challenging. He likes to push watercolour to its limits with both colour density and technique, using both a traditional approach and methods learnt over the past 25 years since working with watercolours.