Nicholas Wyatt is a contemporary British artist, writer and researcher, and a co-founder of the artist run cooperative Cubitt in London. His work belongs to a longstanding tradition in British art that explores the complex interplay between the contemporary and the historical, the religious and the secular – a tradition that includes Tracey Emin and Chris Ofili and stretches as far back as William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Using painting as an experimental tool, Wyatt explores how art can communicate narratives of presence across time and cultures through both abstract and figurative forms. Influenced by German Romanticism and the reception aesthetics of Baroque religious iconography, his expressionist practice – which also encompasses drawing and printmaking – examines the emotional and spiritual charge of visual art, forging connections between present-day aesthetic concerns and the devotional imagery of Bernini, Caravaggio and El Greco.

His art, which includes notable series such as ‘Annunciation’ and ‘Walking in Memphis’, has been widely exhibited in London, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, and is held in collections including the Vatican and the Stadt Sparkasse Bank in Dusseldorf.

Nicholas at Cubitt Studio - Caledonia Street - 1995