'Lager, Bitter & Twisted' - University Art Gallery, Hope St., Liverpool

'Falling Apart in Other Peoples Dreams' is constructed by covering earlier works until only blocks of colour and horizons remain, minimal? Not quite. Viewing this piece is comparable to rubbing a line along a misted window to peek through and see what's beyond, the composition is also strangely evocative of the drawings of the late Mies Van der Rohe. A pivotal work by Sykes and possibly seminal.
Paul Sullivan, Liverpool Daily Post.

Where previously the more sterile surroundings of most galleries have highlighted the more isolated qualities of the pieces. This is nowhere more apparent than in 'Your Memory Won't Die in My Grave', the largest work that Sykes has produced in recent years and while still dealing with the abstracted horizon there is a lessening of the entrapment and limitations that this can suggest. Instead it is as if he has now found a space within the solitude that he creates; a pause for rest, looking towards possibilities. It has also cured my hangover a number of times - truly a masterpiece.
Jim B, Creative Arts Newsletter.

Nick Sykes produces unruly and often bleak cityscape paintings which are inherent of the artist’s deft colour sensibility. Nicks colour selection and layered hybrid of mark making coupled with his almost reckless selection of high quality oil paints and low quality household paints result in natural sense of composition which appears as a synthesis between the physical act of painting and the loose description of the mood of a city.

Nick is a member of the recently defunct Parr Street Artists group and a graduate of Liverpool John Moores University Art School.
Vinni Smith

Serene and stimulating are words which immediately spring to mind when looking at the paintings of artist Nick Sykes. Nick has been painting in Liverpool since graduating from John Moore’s University. Over recent years Nick has been involved in various artist-led projects and several group shows including the Liverpool Biennial - his primary interest, however, is painting.
Kaye Kent interviews Nick Sykes for artinliverpool.com

Nick Sykes presents paintings that have the urban, angular simplicity of a 1950's jazz album cover, something like a smoochy Mondrian, a boogie-woogie variation on a modernist geometric theme.
The Guardian Review

Combining landscapes and abstraction can produce some gorgeous results, but it is a well-trod path. Nick Sykes explores the area with gusto and leaves some good titles such as 'Chasing Tigers with Frank'
The Guardian