Nigel Swift graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1981, and since then has exhibited his work throughout the UK. 

'My work is mostly landscape and nature based, both from looking and working in situ or from memories and drawings completed in my studio. Since 2023 I have been making paintings using both acrylic paint and oil pastel. This combination creates bright luminous layers of colour where it becomes impossible to distinguish which medium is dominant.

Along with painting I use printmaking, especially drypoint, etching and monotype, as these are all very direct methods of catching shapes, mood and atmosphere. Again I often work in location and return to the studio to simplify the images. These can be quite small, three or four inches up to twelve inches at the most. In both my painting and printmaking drawing is the structure upon which everything else hangs. My painted images have predominantly also been quite small but in the past two years they have grown as I work more from memory and less from observation.'