Nicholas Blowers UK / Australia, b. 1972

Lives and works in HOBART, TASMANIA, Australia

Nicholas Blowers (b. 1972, Chelmsford, England) is a British painter based in Hobart, Tasmania. His paintings probe the uneasy boundaries between the natural world and human intervention, with subject matter often traversing drowned forests, edgelands, mine tailings, and other landscape anomalies—places that feel dislocated or out of place. Dense compositions and meticulous detail convey a heightened awareness of nature’s fragility, evoking tension, melancholy, and a sense of ecological unease.

Blowers studied at Southampton Institute, completing a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1994, and his distinctive realist practice now centres on landscapes in states of collapse, disruption, and transformation. Through his intricate, immersive portrayals of threatened and overlooked environments, Blowers draws direct attention to the profound impacts of human presence on the natural world. 

Every articulated mark within Blower's practice is visually considered and tonally compelling. Central to his atmospheric landscapes is a sense of melancholy and the influence of a darker, grittier, Northern tradition. There is an intimacy conveyed in these compositions of tangled undergrowth, tree portraits and acid colour skies. Quiet moments in the landscape gracefully unravel themselves to the audience: it is an experience testament to the artist's long-considered observation of his subjects. Within this process of revelation, Blowers reminds us to consider the places that the world has forgotten or never found.