Artist, Event Rider, Photographer, Model
Nicole has three passions in life: Horses, art and music and they have shaped her. She grew up riding horses and lives in Devon with her four competition horses who she loves more than life itself. "I lend him my mind, and he lends me his feet"
In their innocence and wisdom, in their connection to the earth and its most ancient rhythms, animals show us a way back to a home they have never left. - Susan Chernak McElroy, "Animals As Teachers And Healers"
Nicole works as an artist influenced by her passions... Visit her website
Nicole has always adored music. Tori Amos, Sam Brown and Ani DiFranco's music and most recently Edwina Hayes, among others has inspired Nicole to express herself in HER own way, through her art. Her art is not in the form of music. And it may not be easy to see the influence of the music that she loves in her art, but it is there nevertheless. "This is MY way to be creative, through visual art."
She's been shaped by so many different people and different experiences in her life, in good and bad ways. "I try to take everything on board in some small way, good and bad, because I think it's all relevant and it makes me who I am. Then I express who I am through my paintings." She puts so much of herself into her work that her paintings come intensely alive.
"People can take what they want from my paintings. Whether it's as simple as thinking it looks pretty, or getting a deeper meaning that could then shape that person in some way."
The wonderful thing about art is it's all open to interpretation.
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