Nicole Hoeft

Painting is meditation. There is a tension between reality and the abstract and I am continuously fascinated by the beauty it creates.

When painting realism, I struggle to loosen my control and inverse, when painting abstractly, I desperately seek the familiar.

I find the complexity and process of building layers, texture and lines the most satisfying. At the end, perhaps only a suggestion of the original layer remains, but understand that even those layers that are unseen, are a part of the foundation. The painting can not exist without them.

I have been painting for more than 20 years now and still have yet to imagine that I know anything about painting. What I do know is my soul and how I feel in this world. A lot of my work is colored by it.

I am in the communications field and a graphic designer by day. Painting is a decompression and translator of my inner world. Every painting has a story that reveals a small glimp into a moment or period of my life.

I work with molding pastes, inks, acylics, charcoals, oil mediums and glazes.

Art Institute of Seattle

Saatchi Art Fall 2018 Catalog
Volumes 1 and 2

Miami Art Week
December 2017
https://www.miamiartweek.art/nicole-hoeft

Fine Art Print Representative
Image Conscious
www.Imageconscious.com

Saatchi Art Fall 2016 Catalog
Volumes 1 and 2