Ories through art
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clients living in Guyana and hom she’s never met. She has Gary Best, Godfrey Proctor of ADMA, Scotiabank and many more but her best customers are her family who she says even pay extra too.
The names and titles of her paintings vary depending on what they are inspired by or what the finished product looks like. Some of her pieces are: Freedom, Purest, Pain, Alone and Innocence. Although she does not have a favourite piece there are a few she is more connected to because of being emotionally attached. “I’m especially attached to one I did whilst in Holland of a female bent over… in a shameful repose. I did it less than an hour with free flowing lines, lots of energy,” said Nicole.
Being a teacher at Burrowes, Nicole teaches first, second and third year students and according to her though her job barely pays and makes her feel like quitting, watching her students and their passion for art and their continual progress is what keeps her going. Though those moments mean much to her, there is one that beat them by a notch; that was the time she helped a visually impaired woman paint an apple. It turned out to be her most challenging experience also but she said, “…she did a wonderful job!”
“Some of the challenges myself and other artists face here [in Guyana] would be materials and getting them at a cost that makes economic sense, followed by the limitation of galleries. We have the National Art Gallery and another on Hadfield Foundation… but there is no one stop gallery opened to all fine artists,” Nicole expressed to The Scene.
She continued that foreigners would visit the Art School in search of local art and according to her this is what is needed, “a place to show off our work.”
“We need for our Guyanese society to become more aware of what art is; to be more art educated and art conscious. Majority of the people think it’s about knowing to draw or paint. There’s so much more to art; it’s everything. It’s the designer clothes you wear, the science behind the posh cars you drive, the interior décor of your homes, the exterior of the buildings, the make-up, the vase in the corner, the lamp, the… .everything.”
She extrapolated that art has bettered her academically in Science, History and Mathematics. “Art is a combination of all of that.”
And art has continued bettering her, since she said she does not believe herself to be a professional but someone who learns with each day that comes along.
Apart from Art, Nicole is a wife and a mother of two who enjoys spending time with her family and her mother. She loves to read also, if she doesn’t fall asleep, she added. She writes poetry as well, still loves designing, listening to music, dancing and photography.
In a decade or less, Nicole hopes to have her own art studio.
Some of her pieces can be seen on a Facebook Page called Art Corner or on her Facebook Page, Brushstrokes. She can be reached also at email address spik_nic@yahoo.com