Artwork - Nigel Bruce

Artwork Galleries

These galleries present a selection of my artwork, in pencil, pen and ink and watercolour.

The drawings and painting here cover work I have done over quite a number of years, although I am doing more now – especially for my Great War bikeride book project.

All artwork is: © Nigel Bruce, except where indicated in the description.

More galleries and images will be added soon!

Illustrations for ‘The Road of Hope and Sorrow: the Western Front by bike from Passchendaele to Kilometre Zero’

This is part of my project on The Great War, a journey by bike – so far along the Western Front from the Belgian Coast to the Swiss border – and through history, learning about the causes of the war, the course of the conflict, and the consequences for Europe and the World. A book is in the making.

These drawings are all done in pencil on cartridge or watercolour paper …

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The ‘Grieving Parents’ by Käthe Kollwitz, at Vladslo German Cemetery near Diksmuide, Belgium. The sculpture is the artist’s memorial to her son Peter, who was killed near Langemark in 1914

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The Great War Christmas Truce memorial at Messines, Belgium. The sculpture was designed by Andrew Edwards and cast at the Castle Fine Arts Foundry, Powys, Wales

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Sir Edwin Lutyens’ memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval. The names of around 73,000 missing British and South African soldiers are carved into the walls.

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The Skeleton Memorial at the hill of Le Mort Homme near Verdun

The Ulster Tower Memorial near Thiepval in the Somme

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The Ulster Tower near Thiepval in the Somme. Based on Helen’s Tower at Clandeboye in County Down, it serves as Northern Ireland’s National War Memorial

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The Canadian National Memorial at Vimy Ridge, designed by Walter Seymour Allward. The two figures represent Sacrifice, with the dying soldier passing on the torch in a reference to John McCrae’s poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’

Kenyan Community Health Worker Training: household energy and air pollution

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Scenario for planning transition to cleaner cooking and lighting energy: urban setting

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Roof vents, eaves spaces, windows and doors can help remove cookstove smoke

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Plan view of through and cross ventilation in a home using a wood-fuelled cookstove

Local scenes from Cheshire and North-West England

These drawings and paintings capture village and other local scenes around my home near Chester, and the canals that run through Cheshire and neighbouring counties.