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Nick Oldham Biography

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Born in St. Asaph, North Wales in 1957, Soccer loving Nick Oldham was brought up on a diet of George Best, Bobby Charlton and Denis Law of Manchester United fame during their halcyon days of the mid to late 60s.

Nick studied Art and Design at Connahs Quay College of Art, before leaving North Wales for the bright lights of London in 1974.

He then worked in many art studios until settling back in the North West with childhood sweetheart, Lynne and his 2 young sons, in the Cheshire milltown of Macclesfield, where he still works by day, in advertising.

By the time his older son, Philip, was 7 years old, Nick had virtually given up drawing and painting as he was permanently busy working as many hours as he could to support his young family.

It was at that point, when wondering what to give his son for his birthday that he decided to pick up his brushes and paint a watercolour of his son’s favourite Soccer player, Eric Cantona, knowing that, through a work colleague, he could get the painting signed by Cantona himself.

The portrait hung with pride in Philip’s bedroom for many years.

With his love of art re-ignited, Nick decided to paint many of his idols, past and present for his own pleasure. Cheshire Life magazine featured much of his work from 1999 onwards and MUTV Childrens Programme, Reds@Five also invited him on their show on several occasions to demonstrate to young fans in the audience how to get started on producing their own portraits of their favorite players.

From there, things snowballed, resulting in an exhibition at the Blyth Gallery in Manchester in 2002, Seeing Red, a 3 man exhibition of Manchester United artworks produced by the fans themselves.

The exhibition was well received and covered by MUTV and various newspapers.

Nick caricatures regularly for many Life magazines in the UK, particularly for their popular “Rich Lists”, which feature the Top 100 millionaires in each county.

The number of Life magazines has grown from Cheshire Life to Labcashire, Yorkshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Life magazines.

Football clubs Reading, Sheffield United, Blackpool and Southampton have all commissioned Team caricatures and an England World Cup 2006 squad was independently commissioned.

Cardtoon Creations are a company producing Greetings Cards and Cigarette Cards among other things, who constantly use Nick’s caricatures on their products, samples can be viewed at: www.cardsgifts.co.uk

Influenced by Van Gogh, Nick has recently created a tribute to George Best in a Van Gogh style and intends to add other subjects to this particular style of painting.

Nick Oldham Gallery