With a love of drawing animals and monsters as a youngster, Nigel Humphries a self-taught artist, who lives and works in Stoke-On-Trent then turned his hand to tackling more difficult subjects. Such as steam trains, pet & people portrait and caricatures until settling on his love of recreating images of toys, sweets and more recently superheroes, with inspiration taken from childhood memories comics, films, soundtracks, music and all manner of retro things!

Hoping to spread happiness through his work, Nigel who has extensively studied other artist’ work from Old Masters to Contemporary Artist of today, has developed his own style which he describes as ‘traditional but with a quirky element’.

His nostalgic yet revolutionary award-winning still-life oil paintings, begin as mini stage sets, with crumpled paper backdrops and the star of the piece purposely centred. He uses a fine grain linen canvas, draws outlines with willow charcoal before expertly applying details in his beloved oils. Global collectors of his work appreciate the fun factor of his compositions along with the absolutely expertly applied paint.