Clark Nicol studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee under Alberto Morrocco and Jack Knox, during which time he was a prize winner in the Scottish Open Art Competition at Arbroath in 1971, while a resident artist at Hospitalfield House.

 

 After a post-graduate award (Highly Commended) in 1973 he moved to London where he taught art while continuing to paint. Moving to Nottingham in the 1980s his work began to develop its characteristic language of heavily textured paint evoking atmospheric landforms and culminating in a highly successful solo exhibition in Newark.

 

Frequent visits to his wife’s family in Devon led to his discovery of Dartmoor, which has since then been a great source of inspiration to him. In 2002 they moved to West Devon with their two children and he has focussed almost exclusively on the local landscape.

 

His work is in many private collections and in the Angus Region collection, Forfar, Scotland. A selection of recent paintings can be seen at Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, and Stowe Gallery, St Ives.