Lot 421: * Serra (Nicholas de, b. 1968). Excavate, 1996/97,

* Serra (Nicholas de, b. 1968). Excavate, 1996/97, oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated to reverse, 86 x 86cm (34 x 34ins). Exhibited at the Rocket Gallery exhibition Three Painters: Three Languages, 4 February-5 April 1997. Nicholas de Serra was born in 1968, and studied at Winchester School of Art from 1987 to 1990. His work has been widely exhibited from the mid-1990s onwards, with a solo exhibition at the Rocket Gallery entitled Distortions in 1997 and another solo show entitled Touched by Time at Nagan Johnson Design, London and Bridport Art Centre, Dorset, 1999-2000.(1)