Nicole no.1

I am beginning a transitional phase in my paintings. I am finally figuring out how I want to paint.

Brutal honesty and inherit sense of beauty.

Nicole

I have been painting trying to find a way to release the inner dialog and create paintings that maintain a certain amount of beauty, but place the viewer uncomfortably in ambiguity. I have been studying a wide variety of painters lately from Russian Impressionist too, most notably, the School of British Figurative Painters of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and Frank Auerbach. I am more connected with my work than I have been in a while.

Landscape: translating pastel to paint