Nick Schlee (born 1931) is a British artist. He mainly produces

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Life and work

Schlee was born in

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, Surrey. In 1947, he won Gold and Silver medals for under 18s from the

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. He

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in 1952. In 1955, he studied part-time at the

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, United States. The following year he again studied part-time at the

Central School of Art and Design The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Cra ...

Morley College Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England. The college has three main campuses, one in Waterloo, London, Waterloo on the South Bank, and two in West London namely in North Kensington and in ...

Putney Art School Putney School of Art and Design (PSAD) is an art college in Putney, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Location The school is on the corner of Oxford road and Disraeli road, and backs on to the railway between Putney and Wandsworth town. ...

, and the

Slade School of Fine Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

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. In 1989, he exhibited at the

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in London. He has painted a number of works featuring the

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. His work is of "forceful landscapes defined with positive brushstrokes." He produces short books on his artworks. Since 1989, Nick Schlee has lived and worked in

Upper Basildon Upper Basildon is a small village in the civil parish of Basildon (where the United Kingdom 2011 Census population is included), near to Pangbourne, in the English county of Berkshire. It has a church, dedicated to St. Stephen, built in 1964 ...

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. He is married to the writer

Ann Schlee Ann Schlee FRSL (born 1934) is an English novelist. She won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for ''The Vandal'' (1979), a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. She was elected Fellow of the Ro ...

and has four children.

Exhibitions

Nick Schlee has produced many one man exhibitions in England: * 1987

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, Sussex * 1988 The Grange, Rottingdean * 1990 Wantage Museum, Oxfordshire * 1991 Century Galleries, Henley-on-Thames * 1992 Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh * 1993 Castlegate House Gallery, Cumbria * 1994 Barbican Centre, London * 1995 Wantage Museum, Oxfordshire * 1996 Simon Carter Gallery, Suffolk * 1996

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* 1996

Christ Church Picture Gallery Christ Church Picture Gallery is an art gallery located inside Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. The ...

, Oxford * 1998

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, London * 2000 Gallery 27, London * 2001

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, Newbury * 2002 Gallery 27, London * 2002 River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames * 2003 Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford * 2004 Modern Artists Gallery, Oxfordshire * 2004 Gallery 27, London * 2006 Oxford Said Business School * 2006 Corn Exchange, Newbury * 2006 Gallery 27, London * 2006

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* 2006 Gallery 27, London * 2008 Gallery 27, London * 2010 River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames * 2012 Modern Artists Gallery, Oxfordshire * 2013

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(exhibition produced by the

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) * 2014 Gallery 8, London * 2015 54 The Gallery, London * 2015 Gallery 8, London * 2016 Modern Artists Gallery, Oxfordshire * 2017 Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury * 2017

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, Woodstock * 2018 Gallery 8, London (''Abstractions'') * 2018 Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford * 2020 Gallery 8, London (''

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Collections

Schlee's work is held by the City of London Guildhall Art Gallery,

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, Oxfordshire Museums,

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, Reading Museum & Art Gallery, River & Rowing Museum,

Swindon Art Gallery Swindon Museum and Art Gallery is a mothballed museum in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, which is currently closed while a new venue is sought. Collections The Swindon Art Gallery collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H. J. P. ...

, The Wessex Collection (

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, and

Wiltshire Heritage Museum The Wiltshire Museum, formerly known as Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Devizes Museum, is a museum, archive and library and art gallery in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The museum was established and is run by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natu ...

References

External links

Nick Schlee Paintings and Drawings website

Nick Schlee – Sketching and Painting DVD
Bardon Studios,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schlee, Nick 1931 births Living people People from Weybridge Alumni of University College, Oxford Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design 20th-century English painters 21st-century English painters Artists from Berkshire English male painters English landscape artists 20th-century English male artists 21st-century English male artists