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The Nerdrum student, Nicole Porter from Scotland, is exhibiting her drawings in The Yellow Gallery in Stavern.
Nicole is telling us about the exciting time as a student of Odd Nerdrum. I first came here in September 2008 after sending my application to the Forum gallery in New York; they then put me in contact with the Norwegian painter. About the everyday life at Rødvik, Nicole says that most of the day is spent by discussing with Odd and the other students. All the students’ gathers together with Odd and talk about literature, philosophy and his paintings. The rest of the day the students spend their time with a brush or a pencil in their hands. We paint or draw, and Odd guides us. How many students that live with the painter at Rødvik, and how long they are there for, varies. The students come from different countries. We’re being treated like guests, and feel very welcome! Nicole says. “It’s very educating. One week at Odd’s is like four years at an art school,” she says. Before she came she had just finished four years of art studying at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Scotland. Nicole’s drawings are filled with details. “I wanted to draw my experiences from Norway. Details are important to me,” she says. The time in Norway has gone by fast. “I’m leaving in May,” Nicole says. She has been working at The Yellow Gallery on the weekends. “It has been necessary for me to take part in the daily life in Norway.” She describes the stay with the master as surreal. “It has been an incredibly interesting and educating experience.” If you wish to see more of Nicole’s drawings, you can visit The Yellow Gallery in Stavern, where they are hanging on the walls in the cafe.

Press and Journal “Nicole finds inspiration in Norway”

A young north-east painter, recognised as one of the most promising talents of her generation, has found new inspiration through studying with one of Norway’s most important artists. Former Ellon Academy pupil Nicole Porter has spent eight months of a year-long residency with Odd Nerdrum at his studio in the southern coastal town of Stavern. This month she will be moving to Paris to continue her work in a studio there while also visiting some of the world’s finest galleries. “ A week at Odd’s studio was like four years at an art school,” said the 22-year-old, who graduated with a first class honours degree in fine art from Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone Art School. She also received the Farquhar Reid Trust Prize awarded to the best student painting in oils, having previously won the Artists and Illustrators magazine self-portraiture competition and seeing her work exhibited in London. Over past weeks she has had her recent drawings hung alongside an exhibition of Nerdrum’s works in Norway. The 65-year-old artist has created an international painters’ community in Norway. Only five from hundreds of applicants for residencies there are accepted each year and Miss Porter of Whitemyres Croft, Daviot, is the first Scot to have been chosen. She said she had gained new artistic insight in Norway.

Evening Express, “Artist Nicole Lands Top Residency”

A PRIZE-WINNING Northeast artist is to work with one of Norway’s most acclaimed painters. From September Nicole Porter, 21, of Whitemyres Croft, near Daviot, will begin a year-long residency at Odd Nerdrum’s studio at Stavern. The former Ellon Academy pupil graduates this month from the Duncan of Jordanstone Art School in Dundee with first class honours in fine art. “ I always had an interest in art but it wasn’t until I was accepted by Duncan of Jordanstone Art School that I realized what I could achieve,” she said. Nicole won this year’s Farquhar Reid Trust Art Prize, given to the best student painting in oils. Last year, she won the Artists and Illustrators magazine self-portraiture competition and her work was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ self-portraiture exhibition in London, alongside art by Rolf Harris. Only five of hundreds of international applicants gain residency places each year. Nicole has also given examples of her work to the Compass Gallery in Glasgow, which will run a new generation show next month.

Press and Journal, “Inverurie Artist lands place in top studio” article by Alistair Beaton

Young woman will take her skills to Norway. A YOUNG north-east painter has clinched a sought-after residency in the studio of one of Norway’s most innovative and acclaimed artists. Former Ellon Academy pupil Nicole Porter will celebrate her 22nd birthday next month knowing she has been recognised as one of the most promising talents of her generation. At a graduation ceremony on June 19 atthe Caird Hall, Dundee, she will receive a first-class honours degree in fine art after four years of studying. “ I always had an interest in art but it wasn’t until I was accepted by Duncan of Jordanstone Art School that I realised what I could achieve,” she said. Nicole won this year’s Farquhar Reid Trust Art Prize, given to the best student painting in oils. Last year, she won the Artists and Illustrators magazine self-portraiture competition and her work was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ self-portraiture exhibition in London, alongside art by Rolf Harris, among others. In September, Nicole, from Whitemyres Croft, near Daviot, Inverurie, will begin a year-long stay at Odd Nerdrum’s studio at Stavern. Only five of hundreds of international applicants gain residency places each year. Nicole was in Glasgow yesterday delivering examples of her work for a Compass Gallery new-generation show that will run throughout next month.

Contact Magazine, “Celebrating A New Generation of Talent”

A Degree Of Success

Nicole Porter from Aberdeenshire celebrated an outstanding finale to her four years as a fine art student at the University. As well as obtaining a first class degree the talented 21-year-old artist, who combines portraiture and still life in a representational style, won no less than six top awards including a one-year residency in Norway with the acclaimed Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum. Other prizes picked up in her final year include the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant worth £6,000, the Farqhuar Reid Art Prize awarded by Duncan of Jordanstone College, and a David Gordon Trust Award won at the Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition earlier this year. She also won the Artists and Illustrators Magazine Self-Portraiture Competition and a second place in the Boundary Gallery Figurative Art Prize, a national competition run by the Boundary Gallery in London. Nicole won the Norwegian residency through a selection process run through the Forum Gallery in New York. She has also had her work widely exhibited this year including at the Boundary Gallery and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Self-Portraiture Exhibition at the Long Gallery in London, the Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition in Edinburgh and the Generator Projects Members Show in Dundee. She will also be taking part in the Compass Gallery’s New Generation Show in Glasgow in July.

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