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  • A portrait format oil painting of a girl sat on a green velvet chair, in a 1950s ballerina style dress. The girl is about 18 years old, and very pretty, with blonde hair pulled back in a bun with a centre parting, her dress is white with a net petticoat, and scattered with black velvet roses. She sits slightly side on, with her hands together on her lap. She feels very serene, some parts of the picture are painted very loosely, whilst her face and features are figurative.
    Girl in the Ballerina Dress, Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 70.5cm, 2022 – Nina Packer
  • A portrait format figurative oil painting by Nina Packer of a jug of Summer flowers against an emerald green background. The flowers are loosely painted: three pink roses, with dark red bell like flowers and blue and purple blooms, all picked from the garden, the jug is teal green and cream stripe, set on a pale brown/gold table top.
    Last of Summers Flowers, Oil on Canvas, 18″ x 24″, 2021 – Nina Packer 2021
  • A portrait format figurative oil painting of a green Japanese kimono draped over a dark wooden spindle backed chair. The kimono is of fine pistachio silk with deliacte flowers and gold thread embroidery, the background is a loosely painted antique textile in muted browns and pinks with tassels on the bottom, and the chair sits on top of a contrasting pattern rug. It's a very calm feeling picture
    Green Japanese Kimono on Chair, Oil on Canvas, 30cm x 40cm – Nina Packer
  • A portrait format oil painting by Nina Packer of a girl in a red kimono. The portrait is head and shoulders, she sits looking slightly to the right side of the picture, the kimono is antique Japanese, with gold embroidered flowers at the shoulder. She is very beautiful, with dark eyes and dark hair tied back from her face, the paint marks are fine on her face, and looser for the background and textiles.
    Girl in Red Kimono, Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 20″, 2021 – Nina Packer
  • A landscape format oil painting by Nina Packer of a dead sparrow on an emerald green background, painted in loose brushstrokes, the bird is positioned diagonally in the picture.
    Little Sparrow from the Hedge Treasure Series, Oil on Board, 10″ x 12″, 2021 – Nina Packer
  • A landscape format oil on board painting by Nina Packer, of snowdrops in a black lustre ware milk jug with pale blue inner glaze. the jug sits on a fabric cloth loosely painted in Windsor blue green shade, there is a blackbird egg and a gold wedding band next to them. Snowdrops are for hope in the language of flowers, picked from the hedges in this most difficult of Januarys.
    ‘Snowdrops & Blackbird Egg’, oil on canvas, from the Hedge Treasure Paintings, Nina Packer, 2021.
  • A portrait format figurative oil painting of a girl reading. She is sitting on a green velvet high backed chair, and wearing an antique silk kimono in cream, with blue and red details and gold thread embroidered detail. The girl is facing us and looking down towards the book she hold in her lap, a copy of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Her face is representational, the textiles are rendered in loose brushstrokes.
    Phoebe Reading The Handmaid’s Tale, Oil on Canvas, 20″ x 28″, 2021 – Nina Packer
  • A square format oil painting of a wooden bowl, containing two small yellow and orange pumpkins and a gourd with two ruby red pomegranates, nested between the fruit is a small, very old celluloid Christmas Fairy, with a Broderies Anglais dress and gold paper wings. There is a garland of gold stars snaking accross the items, and a little group of dried silvery moss tucked between. It is called All Souls and Christmas.
    All Souls & Christmas Still Life, Oil on Canvas, 40cm x 40cm, 2022 – Nina Packer
  • A landscape format oil painting by Nina Packer of the Percuil river at high tide, with blackthorn blossom in the hedgerows and a cloudy skies.
    Percuil River with Hawthorn, Oil on Board, 10″ x 12″, 2021 – Nina Packer
  • A landscape format by Nina Packer painted in oil of the view to Porthcurnich from Portscatho harbour, the sea is fierce with large white capped waves, it is painted in loose expressive brushstrokes.
    Porthcurnick from The Porth with a Fierce Easterly, Oil on Board, 10″ x 12″, 2021 – Nina Packer.
  • A landscape format oil painting of the harbour at Portscatho, the sea is calm and blue and light is sparkling on the waters edge, there is pink sea thrift growing from the rocks at the harbour wall.
    Portscatho Harbour with Pink Thrift, Oil on Board, 10″ x 12″, 2021 – Nina Packer.
  • A landscape format oil painting by Nina Packer, painted looking over the sea to The Dodman and Gull Rock, the skies and sea are silver grey and there are rocks in the foreground, it is painted in loose brushstrokes.
    Portscatho to The Dodman, Oil on Board, 10″ x 12″, 2021 – Nina Packer.
  • A portrait format still life oil painting by Nina Packer, there are stems of 'Paper Whites', or white narcissi standing in a copper vase with curved handles, on an emerald green surface. There are four satsumas on the table and the background is loosely painted Indian fabric in dark purple and indigo with cream paisley print.
    ‘Paper Whites & Satsumas’, oil on canvas, 2021 Nina Packer
  • A large rectangular oil painting of a seated girl reading a book; the girl, (the artists daughter) is ten years old and her image takes up most of the canvas, she is sat in an old dark wood farm kitchen style chair with curved arms and a spoke back, leaning forward slightly over her book, which is open on her knee - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - her eyes are downcast, absorbed in the story and her long hair is worn down, soft brown against a purple zippered top. Her face seems lit by the book, whilst the rest of the painting is lit from a window behind, next to her on the table is a birds nest and a seabird skull, there are two blue and white pots just visibel in the background on the window ledge. Parts of the painting are painted loosely, her face is focussed.
    ‘Girl Reading’, Oil on Canvas, ?” x ?”, 2020
  • A square oil painting of crab apples in a blue and white china bowl; the view is from above looking down, so the bowl looks reminiscent of a nest with jewel like eggs and takes up much of the canvas, a vine of Bryony with bright red berries winds down the right and bottom of the picture, framing the bowl. The background is an emerald green, the fruit is focussed with looser strokes for the bowl and looser still for the Bryony leaves, the berries are loose stabs of scarlet red against the green .
    ‘Crab Apples & Bryony’, Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 16″ (from the Hedge Treasures series), 2020
  • A small landscape format painting on board of the view from the artists studio window, across a harrowed field on a wet day, China Clay Country is just visible in the distance through the rain. The paint is loose and free, the field is in ochre and the hills in pale blues.
    Harrowed Field & China Clays – View from the Studio, oil sketch on board, Nina Packer, 2021.
  • A portrait format oil painting of a girl of 10 years old, she is sat upright in a wooden chaor, her hair is down and she is looking out slightly to the left of the picture. A wolf stares out of the front of her t-shirt, there is a shadowy dragon in the background behind the chair, and the suggestion of green leaves of a forest about the chair. The picture is painted mostly in blue tones, with a dark brown wooden chair and dark brown hair.
    ‘Girl in a Wolf T-Shirt’, oil on canvas, ?” x ?”, 2021
  • A portrait format painting of a red antique silk kimono on a a dress makers form, the robe has white fan motifs with gold embroidery, there is a round dark wood table next to it, with a large white jug on it, with branches of blackthorn covered with sloes, there is a blackbirds nest on the table next to it.
    Antique Kimono & Blackthorn Branches – Oil on Canvas – Nina Packer – 2021
  • A small rectangular oil painting of wild flower by Nina Packer; the format is portrait, a small blue and white china cup filled with pink campions, white stitchwort and blossoms from a head of cow parsley. Painted loosely against a turquoise background, the flowers and cup take up most of the picture.
    ‘Wild Flowers from the Hedgerow – from the Hedge Treasures Series, Oil on Board, ? x?
  • 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.
    ‘Self-Portrait with Ottoman Necklace’, Oil on Canvas, ?” x ?”
  • Winter Still Life in the Portscatho Studio, Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 20″, 2021
  • A small rectangular painting of a wood burning stove set in a workshop interior; the 'Villager' stove is lit and you can see the flames through the glass panes, one of which is cracked on the corner, it is set up on a concrete plinth next to a blockwork section of wall, there are heavy black iron weights on the top either side of the flue. The room is dusty and cosy, and a broom leans against the wall with a pile of red dust and wood shavings and a shovel, the ornate decoration on the stove is picked out in the flickering fire light. The craftsman is working at the bench, just out of sight - a tiny piece of his green metal chair leg is visible to the right.
    ‘The Workshop Woodburner’, Oil on Board, 9″ x 13″
  • A rectangular oil painting of a lit wood burning stove by Nina Packer. The stove, a small black Morso Squirrel, has both doors open and the fire it lit and roaring, a little of the surround is visible, painting loosely in greays and the stove pipe is disappearing diagonally into the top left corner, there is a pile of stacked wood to the left and an ash shovel facing the fire, a small section of Turkish carpet in red tones stretches across the bottom half of the picture in front of the hearth
    ‘Living Room Stove’, Oil on Canvas, 13″ x 9″
  • a square painting of a single white camellia flower in a simple, round Celadon vase, painted with large loose brush strokes, set againast a bright vermillion red and carmine background tablecloth
    ‘White Camellia in Celadon Vase’, Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 16″, 2019
  • A large rectangular oil painting in landscape format, by Nina Packer; a red headed girl lies on a couch facing us, she is wearing a 1940s black halter-neck evening dress covered with shimmering polka dots, she has bare feet, one hand rests across her waist, the other down on her dress, her gaze is towards the bottom right of the picture. Behind her there is a window letting in Winter light that fall across a little highly polished table with plants and a dish of oranges, there are paintings on the walls behind her.
    ‘Girl in a Starling Dress’, Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 19″
  • Square painting of a collection of objects: a china naked Edwardian china doll with broken feet sits on her side with one hand shading her eyes looking to the left towards a yellow brass horse head, they are surrounded by natural objects, pale pink coral, white and green crystal, a small shrew skull and the remains of a bird skeleton with wings. Half a large white broken egg shell sits in the foreground at her feet. The background is dark indigo with areas of dark sapphire blue. The doll appears to be life like.
    ‘China Doll Vitrine Painting’, Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 16″, 2018
  • A rectangular oilp painting of artists materials painted in loose brush strokes; a chunky old glass bottle with paintbrushes, jars with turps in and other liquid, and a blue and white china pot. In the background is a terracotta plant pot with a geranium plant reaching up into the top of the canvas. The colours are mainly blues and greens with the burnt sienna orange primer showing through in parts as the table cloth.
    ‘Turps & Brushes – Studio Still Life’, Oil on Canvas, ? 19″ x 15″
  • A rectangular oil painting of a sheep's skull by Nina Packer; viewed from the side it is painted in whites and pale pink loose brushstrokes and it set on a green circular table, with a red Russian scarf set to the left in the background.
    ‘Sheep Skull’, Oil on Board, ? x ?

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