A rectangular Oil painting representational self-portrait of and by Nina Packer, head and shoulders taking up most of the canvas, she has dark hair pinned up with a grey stripe in the fringe, with an antique silver ottoman coin necklace. Painted from life the colours are muted, the brush strokes loose and she looks out of the canvas directly at the viewer.

1974

Born Reading

1998-2002

London Guildhall University BA hons (1st) Silversmithing, Jewellery & Allied Crafts

2014

Joined John Howard Print Studio, Penryn, Cornwall

2016

Joined The Portscatho Society of Arts, Portscatho, Cornwall

Selected Exhibitions

2021 St Ives Society of Artists, Norway Square, St Ives

2008 ‘Between the Lines’, Jubilee Wharf, Penryn

2002 ‘Temporary Autonomous Art’, ABC Cinema, Hampstead Heath

2002  ‘Moving Dialogue’, London, Italy, Germany

2002 ‘Something in Common’, New Greenham Arts, Greenham Common

2002 ‘Inhorgenta’, Munich, Germany

2001 The Boiler House, Brick Lane, London

2001 ‘Observatori’, Valencia, Spain

2001  ‘Casscade2’, Saatchi & Saatchi, London

Publications

2021  My Cornwall, Aug-Sept, ‘Through the Eyes of… Nina Packer’

2019  My Cornwall, Dec-Jan, ‘The New Gallery, a Historic Artists Retreat’

2002  [a-n] Magazine, April, ‘Observatori’, International Section

2001 Evening Standard, ‘Hi Techs in the City’, Corinne Julius

2000 Crafts Magazine, May/June, Craft Notes