Nick Jensen : Fog and the fall

This October, British artist Nick Jensen undertook a month-long residency at Belvoir Castle, developing a new body of work in direct dialogue with the site’s layered cultural and physical landscape.

Jensen’s practice is rooted in perception – in how we interpret, filter, and reframe the world around us. His paintings, created through an intuitive layering of distemper and oil, operate as translations of sensation: fleeting impressions of play, intimacy, and pause. In developing the series, Jensen worked close to the ground, pouring diluted pigment in successive washes to build up his compositions. This physical, process-driven approach – guided as much by instinct as by observation – captures the delicate balance between chance and control that defines his work.

Installed throughout Belvoir’s interiors, Fog and the Fall unfolded as a quiet dialogue between art and architecture. The works acted as both interruptions and echoes, subtly reframing the castle as something alive and responsive. By suspending one of the largest pieces, In the fold, above visitors as they entered, Jensen invited viewers to look upward and engage with the space in new ways.

Through Fog and the Fall, Jensen reimagined Belvoir not as a monument to history but as a living organism – a site where pigment meets stone, and where the fleetingness of perception finds resonance in the permanence of place.

 Artist-in-Residence Programme | HeritageXplore x The Dot Project