Nicky Browne

Nicky Browne enjoys drawing and is a printmaker. She has lived in Broadstairs since 2021.

She uses a press to make linocut prints. She taught print, particularly etching and intaglio methods and also relief printing – lino and wood - at Richmond Adult College. She developed a mobile studio to teach etching using the less harmful copper sulphate method which she then taught for several years in a studio in Chertsey.

Nicky focusses on series both for artwork and exhibiting. While in Richmond these included pubs, teashops, the (historical) libraries, bridges and river crossings, monkeypuzzle trees, churches and the River Thames itself. A long-running project is UK cathedrals. She has also drawn weddings. In Thanet she spent most Thursdays last winter drawing and then eating cakes in the many excellent teashops of The Isle of Thanet.

Nicky produces cards and minibooks. These are digitally printed compilations based on a series. The most commercially successful have been on Hampton Court Palace and its gardens and The River Thames. Also Taking Friends out to Tea, Great Cake-Making Failures and French Tarts. She has also written and illustrated a short self-published book about Sybil Penn, a Hampton Court Ghost.