The Tree of Life: paintings by Nigel Colebrook, Richard Morgan and Nigel Moody
20th January 2026
- 21st February 2026
10am - 4pm
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Nigel Moody
Nigel Moody was born in 1961 in Woking, Surrey, however from the age of six the family moved to Norfolk.
He studied art at Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design and at Winchester School of Art where he gained an Honours Degree in Painting.
Nigel was inspired by, and strove to follow in the footsteps of, those geniuses of the English landscape genre, such as John Constable, John Sell Cotman and Samuel Palmer.
Nigel finds his inspiration from the byways around where he lives in the Broads National Park. The vistas, which reveal themselves around every bend, or appear through a gap in the hedgerow, often shrouded by the canopy of overhanging trees of unkempt Hawthorn and Blackthorn.
These landscapes are a recurring theme, capturing the chiaroscuro, the infinite textures and nuances of nature, the road wending its way through the folds in the landscape; these are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the expression of emotion, mood and metaphor.
Nigel enjoys the challenge of striving to express, not only the spirit of the landscape, but the response of the spirit within.
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Nigel Colebrook
Nigel Colebrook was born in 1954 and studied art at Lowestoft Art School and went on to complete an Honours degree in fine art painting at Norwich School of Art.
He is well known as a portrait artist, however he has a more personal artistic outlet in the form of inspired and visionary art. This finds its form in the East Anglian landscape with the tree forming a symbolic motif in much of his work.
His painting style encompasses different media and he experiments with mark-making techniques, indeed some of his recent work the ‘brush’ has been replaced with circular rods, printing the surface of the canvas, creating a surface and colour combination that is reminiscent of Persian carpets – an influence from Eastern art.
Nigel has exhibited widely and his work is in private collections both here and across the world.
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Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan was born in 1942, and spent his early years in the East End of London.
In the late 1950’s he received his initial training in illustration while working, as what was known then as a commercial artist, in those pre-digital days, when the term ‘Graphic Artist’ was waiting to be spun.
In 1966 he found himself in Suffolk, and like many before him he was beguiled by it reserved beauty. In the sixty years that followed, Richard has devoted much of his life to painting and drawing the landscape about him – developing a particular love of trees.
Over this long period of time, he feels he has become more and more aware of something of the creative energy that seems to drive nature.
For him the tree is usually the primary subject – central to his expression of an ideal – where in the spiritual sense the tree is ‘The Tree of Life’, and, in a physical sense, the tree is – ‘The Tree – That is Life’, upon which humanity is so dependent.
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PV: Saturday 24th January 12 – 2pm