About Nina Packer

Nina Packer is a contemporary figurative artist, based in Cornwall. After graduating from a degree in Silversmithing, Jewellery & Allied Crafts at London Guildhall University in 2001, she migrated south to fulfil a long held dream to become a painter, and works from her studio on the edge of the beautiful Roseland Peninsula.

‘What sort of magic is painting? To try to capture the spirit of a person on a stretched piece of fabric, to try to describe how sun-light and breeze feel, using coloured pigments and tools made of tails.  I consider myself very lucky for my profession to be tangled up in this alchemy.

My academic training was in silver and jewels, the rest I have picked up along the way through the luck of crossed paths and the generosity of other artists, who have given me their time, knowledge and advice. Primarily I work in oils, but choose a medium depending on its suitability for a task; soot black willow charcoal, inky print lines and the occasional glimmer of silver and gold all having their own allure’. 

Nina’s work is available at The New Gallery Portscatho; an artist-run showroom and studios, and home to the Portscatho Art Society.

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