Nadia Tuercke’s paintings explore the space between observed reality and abstraction. Her compositions evolve intuitively through a process of careful colour placement and spatial flattening, piecing together interlocking shapes and forms in built up layers of colour and texture.

Drawing on a lifelong love of textiles and quilting, she explores the physical qualities of paint with a tactile understanding. Her considered use of colour is clear, often working subtle hues alongside dashes of unexpected, contrasting colour. Grounded in a sophisticated, earthy palette, she translates her subject matter into bold compositions of expressive weight.

Through close observation of her environment, Nadia finds inspiration in both the domestic and the natural world. Familiar subjects like the heavy heads of drooping sunflowers, the hard lines of ceramics, or the organic, rhythmic patterns found in nature, are reimagined and stripped of traditional perspective.  Instead, she translates these figurative elements and three-dimensional forms into atmospheric planes of colour. In doing so, Nadia invites the viewer into her own imagined and constructed reality. As she says herself, "What goes on in my head is far more interesting than anything I could lay out in front of me on a table."

Nadia studied a BA in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University in 2004 and is now working from her studio in East London. Her work has grown an international following among buyers and collectors, with pieces held in private collections worldwide.