Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that two works by Barbara Nicholls: Tidal Deltas, 2016 and Mesosphere, 2014, entered the permanent collection of the British Museum.
One of the acquired pieces - Mesosphere, 2014 was exhibited at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London in 2025 as part of Nicholls's first solo show at the gallery, Between the Tides.
The exhibition included earlier and recent works, by means of which Barbara Nicholls investigates the possibilities and limitations of pigment, water and paper, translating her experience of the landscape into abstract watercolours. While drawing, she reflects on natural formations encountered or imagined: tide mark lines on beaches, creeping glaciers and moraine deposits, cliffs and quarries with their shifting forms of geological strata revealing traces of past events and the slow movements of the earth.