About
Biography
Nicole was born into a family in which artistic creation has always had a high priority and in which the artistic tradition has been cultivated for several generations.
After Nicole’s jazz studies in New York in guitar, voice, piano and improvisation and a subsequent intensive time in a hardware and software company, 4G and Cobol programming, system administration, as an operating system specialist, course instructor for the training department and with customers and later as a project manager, painting gained both urgency and importance alongside music and the ubiquitous doodling.
After a serious car accident as a passenger in 1992, her life changed fundamentally. 30 years later, after dedicating herself to painting for 20 years, the artist went public with her works in January 2022.
She combines a deep technical understanding with an intuitive approach to different materials to create works that evoke a range of emotions.
Nicole has a strong curiosity about the reactions of different materials and the different effects of color and light. This motivates her to continuously experiment, through which she develops her artistic style. She is particularly interested in chemical reactions, especially the inherent dynamics of different materials, as well as the hypnotic reflections, depths and shapes created by the superimposition of numerous layers of paint.
The artist works consciously and exclusively with pure pigments, various binding agents such as sintered lime water, tempera, casein or oil and with marble lime, marble powder, Carrara sand, stain and other building materials. These materials led her naturally into the fascinating world of mixing techniques as well as fresco and secco painting.Painting, a highly complex and unique artistic tradition with its very own and profound aesthetic.
After two decades of intensive involvement with painting, during which she trained under the guidance of artists in Brazil, England, Germany and Switzerland, Nicole began to publicly disseminate her artistic work in January 2022.
Artist Statement
The creative process for a specific painting can persist for days, evolving and manifesting in a manner that appears random but, upon closer examination, is a series of precisely delineated actions that are not contingent on chance and culminate in the expression of a particular emotion.
On other days, creativity is a process that occurs within me and has its origin in the existence of the whole. In my being, as well as in the universe, creativity seeks to find a way to flow through me independently of any thought.
On other days, creativity manifests as instinct, intuition, knowledge, passion, desire, perception, leading, impulses, dance, poetry, touch, and sight. Creativity is not a singular mode of action; rather, it is a multifaceted aspect of our own and universal energy, an inherent quality of our nature. I posit that creativity is accessible to all who are willing to embrace it without restriction.