Nicholas James Juett Cambridge born, Nicholas James Juett returns to home ground, after a successful transatlantic career in the United States, to revisit and re-examine, through his expressive painting, personally iconic locations. With an aptitude for detailed drawing, coupled with exceptional talent for manipulating vibrant colours and employing bold brush strokes, Juett’s work revives the places of his childhood and contemplates the modernisation of the present. 
 

The three major pieces of Juett’s work exposed in this exhibition belong to a wider series of vibrant interiors, each featuring an imposing and provocative blank television screen. Writer and film producer, Nicolas Klein described Juett’s work as “panoply of distant memories, punctuated by familiar objects”: it is as though the work reflects something personal and private while maintaining universality by featuring familiar objects which provide the observer points of cultural reference. Nevertheless, it is the flamboyant use of colour, indicative of the artist’s own personality, that is the key to appreciating Juett’s work.    
 

Juett’s latest project, to which the two cityscapes belong, concerns the external environment and the urban landscapes that modern living dictates. Using modern technology, in the form of a mobile phone camera to capture the initial impression of personally significant scenes, the paintings interpret the subtleties of atmosphere and memory to create architecturally detailed portrayals with just a hint of what is going on indoors. Furthermore, each painting’s title is the postcode that corresponds to the street depicted, so that every painting in the series may be topographically situated in maps or on the Internet.
 

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