Nicole Susanne
As a child, I had the privellage of growing up in a home where with very creative members. We were always doing arts and crafts or I was with friends doing arts and crafts. I was always encouraged to use my imagination.
In high school, I finally had the chance to take art classes at school, and a whole new world of possibilites opened up to me. I realized that I knew what colors went well together on different mediums, I realized there were materials to work with that I had never imagined, and I was never told to recreate anyone's work--I was always encouraged to creat my own ideas. In these art classes I learned how to carve lennolium for prints, how to make 3-dimensional art, and how to use color penciles "propperly".
Once I was in college, the art almost stopped, except for a few chalk drawings and water color paintings every once in a while, I was having an "creative block". Finally, about 5 years later, I have so many ideas that I have to write them down because I can't keep up with myself.
The majority of my inspiration comes from nature and my childhood. I have a Bachelors degree in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin, and I love the work that I do -- Transportation and City Planning, but nothing as is rewarding, to me, as creating my own pieces of art. As you may notice in many of my paintings, there is always a tree or plant-like entity in them, but there is always an unrealstic twist. As a child I used to imigine that I lived outdoors in nature alone, and what I recreat in my art today, is what was in that world of mine.
My favorit works have eggs in them with some sort of plant growing out of the egg. This inspration comes for a very young age. My uncle, at one point, had a painting hanging in his apartment with 3 ladies in the painting, and each lady had something a her hand. One lady had a small plant growing out of her hand, and it evolveded into a plant growing out of an egg in my creations. My first egg-flower creation came at the end of 1996.
In my short life, I have been able to travel quite a lot. At 19 I was able to study in Paris and Lyon, France for a summer where I stayed with a host family and learned French. By 21, I was graduated from UT, after only 2.5 years, and was married. Shortly after getting married, I moved to Karlsruhe, Germany and lived and learned German there for a year. My travels have also, in some cases repedidly, brought me to Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Austria, Canada, the Bahamas, Mexico, Belieze, Colombia, all around Germany, and all around the USA. I have the privellage to be living in Fürth, Germany again for over a year now.
In high school, I finally had the chance to take art classes at school, and a whole new world of possibilites opened up to me. I realized that I knew what colors went well together on different mediums, I realized there were materials to work with that I had never imagined, and I was never told to recreate anyone's work--I was always encouraged to creat my own ideas. In these art classes I learned how to carve lennolium for prints, how to make 3-dimensional art, and how to use color penciles "propperly".
Once I was in college, the art almost stopped, except for a few chalk drawings and water color paintings every once in a while, I was having an "creative block". Finally, about 5 years later, I have so many ideas that I have to write them down because I can't keep up with myself.
The majority of my inspiration comes from nature and my childhood. I have a Bachelors degree in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin, and I love the work that I do -- Transportation and City Planning, but nothing as is rewarding, to me, as creating my own pieces of art. As you may notice in many of my paintings, there is always a tree or plant-like entity in them, but there is always an unrealstic twist. As a child I used to imigine that I lived outdoors in nature alone, and what I recreat in my art today, is what was in that world of mine.
My favorit works have eggs in them with some sort of plant growing out of the egg. This inspration comes for a very young age. My uncle, at one point, had a painting hanging in his apartment with 3 ladies in the painting, and each lady had something a her hand. One lady had a small plant growing out of her hand, and it evolveded into a plant growing out of an egg in my creations. My first egg-flower creation came at the end of 1996.
In my short life, I have been able to travel quite a lot. At 19 I was able to study in Paris and Lyon, France for a summer where I stayed with a host family and learned French. By 21, I was graduated from UT, after only 2.5 years, and was married. Shortly after getting married, I moved to Karlsruhe, Germany and lived and learned German there for a year. My travels have also, in some cases repedidly, brought me to Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Austria, Canada, the Bahamas, Mexico, Belieze, Colombia, all around Germany, and all around the USA. I have the privellage to be living in Fürth, Germany again for over a year now.
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