Nadine Nicole Schmidt

About me.

I was born in the UK in the early 80s, but grew up in the wild countryside of Germany. I finished school with my A-levels in art and English and emigrated to the UK at the age of 18, where I threw myself into social work and general people-oriented work (like waiting on tables…) It is only when I started travelling that my interest for photography erupted and with that learning the manipulation of images, which ultimately led me to painting in the end.

Philosophy and psychological studies was a course I did for many years, before I decided to leave, move to Berlin and study something more creative. I ended up at the BTK and took a communications design course that entailed regular life painting classes. That is what got me hooked and ever since then I paint with acrylics. I have never finished any of my courses at university, but learnt to be a florist instead. Today I am a painting florist.

About my work.

Painting to me is a spiritual journey that allows me to escape into imagination. I escape into phantasy places and dwell there for a while, I turn into the subjects I paint and see from their eyes and I recharge, when I look at my paintings after they are done.

I am also captivated by the way life was liv...

2018-02/2020: Apprenticeship Floristry

2011-2012: Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK), Berlin – Communication Design Course with a painting course by Hans- Hendrik Grimmling

2005 – 2010: Open University, UK – long distance course “Philosophy and Psychological Studies”,

2002 – 2004: South West Youth Ministries, Devon, UK – OCR diploma in “Christian Leadership Skills” in which I initiated youth projects around music and dance

1994 – 2002: Städtisches Gymnasium Barntrup, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – “Fachhochschulreife” with majors in English and art

01/2018: Exhibition ‘Kunsträume Neukölln’- living room studio – as part of the “Open Art Spaces Neukölln” in my living room studio in Berlin

12/2017: Group exhibition, Studio Baustelle, Neukölln – as part of the auction I exhibited “Bin at the airfield” in the exhibition ‘Affordable Art Auction’ at Studio Baustelle
https://www.studio-baustelle.org/2017

10/2017: Solo Exhibition, Froschkönig, Neukölln – exhibiting two portraits and four landscapes in a local arts bar

06/2017: VHS Painting course with Daniel Schlemme, Berlin – life-painting course outside

01/2017: Group exhibition ‘The Early Days’, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin – the portrait “Holy West” was exhibited along other pieces by other artists that were finished that month.
http://kreuzbergpavillon.tumblr.com/archiv-2017

05/2015-05/2016: Solo exhibition of my reproductions, Fräullein Langner, Neukölln

09/2014: Solo Exhibition ‘Red Carpet’, Neukölln – exhibition of 10 portraits at the Froschkönig Bar in Weisestrasse, Neukölln

2014: Group exhibition with Pop-Artist Stephan Shrem, Berlin – presenting and selling our art on Mehringdamm, Kreuzberg and at the Mauerpark in Mitte