Hello and welcome to my website, I hope you enjoy your time here.
My name is Nicolas Chen and I am a professional painter based in Melbourne, Australia.
Though I’m primarily an oil painter, I also use a variety of other media such as watercolour, gouache, dry media and digital.
I like to explore all kinds of genres of painting including still life, portraiture and landscape. Often mixing multiple genres together.
Through my painting, I hope to share and celebrate life in all its shapes and colours.
Thank you for looking
Media / Press
https://artedit.com.au/artist-profile/nicolas-chen/
Education
2018 Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia
2011 - 2014 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2007 - 2010 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, Australia
Awards / Achievements
2022 Rick Amor Self-portrait Prize, People’s Choice Award
2022 The Doyles, Finalist
2022 Lethbridge 20000, Finalist
2020 Lethbridge 20000, Finalist
2019 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist
2018 A.M.E Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize, Major Award recipient
2018 Victorian Artist Society, Portrait Exhibition, Highly Commended
2018 Cambridge Studio Gallery, "Who is looking at you?" Portrait Prize, Finalist
2015 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Semi-finalist
2015 Cliftons art prize, Melbourne, Australia, Finalist
2014 A.M.E Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize, Finalist
2014 Fourth year prize recipient, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2014 Diploma of Fine Art, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2013 Studio Assistant Teaching Scholarship, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2010 Diploma of Fine Art, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, Australia
2009 Julian Ashton Art School, Full time Scholarship, Sydney, Australia
2008 Joshua Smith Drawing Prize, Sydney, Australia