Brigitte Nioche

Becoming an artist I thought meant to create the same type of art all the time. But I found out quickly this not true - engaging in different medias is a liberating way of looking at the world .This freedom allows my feelings, reactions, and desires to guide my work. It makes it possible to let my imagination flow in 3 different directions.

- Mixed Media - is a wonderful way of recreating and recycling the past. I use pieces like old, blood stained barn boards, railroad nails, pieces of tree bark or pine cones, or an antique silver spoon no longer needed to be part of an afternoon tea ceremony, or a piece French embroidery, or a piece of leather from an Egyptian saddlebag -the choices are endless - the result is always a surprise.

- Collage - it can be a nod to the past or a greeting to an abstract new world. I love the endless possibilities it offers to tell a story: a story of the many facets of life. Collages can bring back memories, which touch the soul or give inspiration to a new world

- Paintings - During the many month of lockdown and solitude I found a way not to feel so isolated. I started to paint faces. Sometimes they were happy faces, and sometimes they reflected my frustration about our situation. Wh...

Brigitte Nioche's background is as wide-ranging as her work. She was born in Germany, and raised there and in Australia. In Sydney, besides attending the Haute Courture Academy, she worked for the department store David Jones, where she met a French woman, Madame Bertrand, who was her mentor to embrace the world of fashion and beauty

The reason for moving to France was meeting a young French man who was on the way back to Paris. After their marriage, living in Paris she attended the Fleuri Delaporte Ecole for design preparing her to open a fashion boutique in New York City, where all merchandise was designed by Nioche.

Dealing with clients in her boutique she became aware how helpful it would be to advice women on their image, and Total Image Plus was born. Her workshops and seminars were written up in
magazines like Vogue, Harpers' Bazaar, New York times, London Daily Mail, Donna, Italy and the Sydney Herald. Her book Dress to Impress sold in the US and England for many years.

Attending Art Student League of New York