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'''Nigel Leslie is an artist, born in Birkenhead in late February 1967 (near Liverpool). He attended Birkenhead School, Wellington Road, Oxton taking his O and A levels a year earlier than standard. He who spent the mid-1990s studying and working in London, where he trained in law and worked successfully as a barrister. He was called to the Bar in 1994 and was fully qualified in 1996. He returned to Liverpool, which he loves for its creativity, vibrancy, friendliness and diversity.

His influences range from everything he has ‘seen, read or heard’ to more traditional sources like music and film. Bowie was a major influence in his teens, mixing the arts rather than dividing them. He was doing artwork in various forms from an early age and is pleased to be a self-taught painter as he says this allowed him to keep his own ideas, whilst picking up techniques which he chose and wanted to use along the way.

His styles in his paintings and artwork are always distinctive, unique and; like Bowie; change and re-invent consistently, rather than sticking to the mainstream, safe art adage of keeping to a style which is ‘safe and works’.

He is an innovative, imaginative and instinctive artist. He describes his paintings as mostly coming down to collage using paint, with a common theme of images within images (with often many in one painting). His art is figurative with an abstract themes.

Nigel has had several successful exhibitions in Liverpool and was selected as 1 of 100 important contemporary UK artists to decorate an old £5 note for a charity auction. Other artists included Damien Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, Gilbert and George, Gavin Turk, Mason Storm and Sir Peter Blake. In her recent article, well-known writer/blogger Alison Little describes him as

“A true Liverpool talent…immortalized for future generations"

He is a resident artist at the Tate Aisle Gallery, Birkenhead.

Recently he is a candidate to be a local artist to exhibit in Tate Liverpool Gallery.