Nigel Caple is a British artist and lecturer. Nigel Caple was born on the

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. He studied art at Portsmouth College of Art and the Department of Fine Art at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now the

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), where he received a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art. While at Portsmouth Polytechnic he studied with the painter

Miles Richmond Miles Peter Richmond (19 December 1922 – 7 October 2008) was a British artist. Born Peter Richmond, in Isleworth, Middlesex, he added the name Miles in the 1980s, and became generally known as such. From 1940 to 1943 he attended Kingston Sc ...

. After graduation he continued to be tutored by Richmond at various locations including

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in Spain,

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in London and The Motor House in North Yorkshire. Caple's relationship with Richmond continued until Richmond's death in 2008. Between 1987 and 1988 Caple worked on a series of paintings and drawings based upon

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on the Isle of Wight. In 1988, Caple began painting and drawing the historic Shinjo Matsuri Festival of Northern Japan. These drawings and paintings culminated in a touring exhibition that was part of the UK's ''Japan Festival 1991''. In 1992, he was invited by cultural authorities in Japan to create and coordinate an exhibition. The subsequent show was entitled ''An Exhibition of Works by Eight British Artists (1919-1992)''. The exhibition was held in Northern Japan. From 1996 to 1999, Caple helped conceive and coordinate a group show called ''Bridges''. This was The Daiwa Foundation's Anglo-Japanese Visual Arts Touring Show, which toured the UK, Europe and Japan. Caple travelled along the Tōkaidō Road in Japan between 1998 and 2000 in order to make drawings of the views once used by

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in his woodblock series entitled ''

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''. These drawings formed the basis for a series of paintings and culminated in a touring exhibition and a lecture series during 2001–2002. Locations included

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and

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. The exhibition was part of the UK's ''Japan Festival 2001''. His lecture on the Tokaido given in 2013 for The Japan Society was subsequently published as an article in The Japan Society's Proceedings publication.Publication, The Tokaido Road by Nigel Caple published in Proceedings by The Japan Society. ISSN 0952-2050. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has received support from both public and commercial sponsors for his painting projects, including

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a United Kingdom-based charity (registered no. 299955) established in 1988 to support closer links between Britain and Japan. It was founded with a benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd (now known as Dai ...

, The

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and

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. His paintings are held in public collections in Britain and Japan. Works in private collections are in the UK, France, Germany, America and Japan. Caple teaches and lectures in London.

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Nigel Caple , website

Miles Richmond , website

University of Hertfordshire Galleries , New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art website

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