Digging into the impasto of Nick Herd

There’s something quietly powerful about standing in front of a work of art and letting it speak to you in its own language. Sometimes you understand what it’s saying and sometimes you’re just left wondering.⁣

This moment was captured at the Aotearoa Art Fair 2025 by my personal paparazzi, Katie Robinson (Insta: @katie_robinson_art). My Art of Us compadre, Holly Clarke (Insta: @hollyclarkestudios), and I were drawn into the textured world of Nick Herd – an Australian-based Kiwi artist represented in New Zealand by Foenander Galleries. His paintings are rich with thick layers of paint (impasto) that feel almost sculptural.⁣

The more we looked, the more we noticed…or maybe the more we projected. That’s the beauty of it. Art is never just about what’s on the canvas – it’s also about what it brings out in us.⁣

Nick Herd | Insta: @nick_herd | nickherd.com

Art of Us, artofus.co.nz

Katie Robinson | Insta: @katie_robinson_art | katierobinson.co.nz

Holly Clarke | Insta: @hollyclarkestudios | hollyclarkestudios.com

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