Nigel Halliday
Words on Art
and the Art of Words
Welcome
New this month:
A new version of Nigel’s lecture ‘Christmas in art’ is now available to watch: click here.
His new article ‘Five reasons why art matters (whether it has a capital A or not)’ has been published by the Big Picture. To read it online click here.
Nigel’s ‘Easter in art’ lecture, focusing on Hans Memling’s Scenes from the Passion of the Christ, is also available online. Click here or google ‘Widcombe Baptist Church youtube Easter in art’. If you are interested in hosting a talk on e.g. ‘Christmas in art’, ‘Easter in art’, ‘Rembrandt: an artist living in sin’, ‘Michelangelo and the Reformation’, use the Contact page here.
Words on Art
Nigel Halliday is a freelance art historian, lecturer and teacher. He studied History of Art at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. He teaches the whole canon of Western art from Giotto onwards, but his main interests have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. He has also researched and lectured on Michelangelo and Rembrandt, and particularly the influence of Protestant belief on their work.
He writes articles and exhibition reviews for the Christian press, and leads retreats and study sessions around the themes of ‘Art and the Bible’, as well as other Biblical teaching. He is a Research Fellow of the Kirby Laing Institute for Public Theology in Cambridge.
The Art of Words
Nigel is also a freelance copywriter, editor and proof-reader. He has written inspiring and original copies for clients, ranging from a major software manufacturer down to an internet start-up; and has worked as an editor and proof-reader for several major UK publishers. For more details CLICK HERE
He edited Margins, collections of short stories from the Morphe Writers Collective. Get a copy here: