Nick Lepard is a new Vancouver artist
just beginning his professional career. Diane Farris first saw
his work in the summer of 2006. Upon visiting his studio, she
was sufficiently impressed to show a large major painting entitled
From Milan to Vienna in a 2006 summer exhibit.
Lepard’s style is raw, competent and confident beyond
his years. Like the work of artists he admires – for example,
the American writer Charles Bukowski, a “hard-boiled anti-hero”,
and British painter Jenny Saville, who “constructs painting
with the weighty heft of sculpture” – Lepard paints
with gusto and verve. He has moved beyond his earlier photorealist
style to a more courageous approach that is part “happenstance”
and very much about the process of moving paint around, while
still maintaining artistic control.
Lepard’s parents immigrated to Canada from England. Both
a Canadian and a UK citizen, he was born in Vancouver in 1983.
Currently
Lepard is in his fourth year at the Emily Carr Institute
of Art & Design in Vancouver, BC, where he is studying for
a degree in visual arts.
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