Nick Poullis was born in Henley on Thames in 1974 and brought up in Amersham and now lives in France. After gaining a B.A. Hons. in illustration he went on to illustrate books including the award winning The Voyage of the Arctic Tern by Hugh Montgomery published Walker Books U.K.  His watercolours have been exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal Society of British Artists, Sunday Times Singer and Friedlander Exhibition, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He has held many successful exhibitions at Art Galleries in London, Reigate, Amersham and Henley -on- Thames and regularly writes for The Artist and The Artist and Illustrators Magazine and has been featured in the International Artists Magazine.  

He has won awards at the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.  He was elected Associate Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1994.

A book The Art of Nick Poullis, with a foreword by Ken Howard RA was published in 2009.  Work by Nick Poullis is in the private collections of the Royal Air Force, St. John’s College, Cambridge, the Yorkshire Building Society and Baker Tilly Chartered Accountants.

His watercolours are painted with traditional techniques but in a fresh and contemporary style. Full of sunshine, these new paintings take their inspiration from the beautiful Languedoc region of South West France. The paintings depict many of the features special to this region such as olive and pine trees and the landscape where many of the local people work.


"Watercolour painting is like playing a single beautiful instrument.....
Nick Poullis has tuned his instrument to express the beauty of nature to a rare degree."
Professor Ken Howard NEAC RWS ROI RA

“Watercolours painted with vigour and skilful use of reflected light”
Trevor Chamberlain ROI  RSMA