Nikolina Andrea

Welcome to my gallery!

My artworks begin with a desire to try something new and are driven by passionate, fervorous feelings inspired by nature, current events, and animals. I do not believe in starting at the end, and so I oppose starting a painting with the end-image in mind. Instead, I treat each layer as an adventure. As the experiment unfolds on the canvas, I am provided with a starting frequency which I can then embellish with more general overtones as well as more detailed oscillations to connect my thoughts into the artwork and channel my own energy. In this way, Nature and I create the artwork hand in hand.
Nature does not have a color palette; rather, the universe is filled with infinitely more colors than we can see with the naked eye. I, therefore, utilize an enormous range of hues, temperatures, and sheens, from vivid to dark, glossy to matte, and warm to cool, all within the same artwork.
I also do not tolerate "flat" art. I heavily use various mediums or even make my own to impart a wide range of textures into my artworks, making them "pop" out from the canvas with ridges, crevices, hills, and walls. I also use glazes and resin to embed glass beads, Mica powders, custom-made acrylic polymers, and natural wonders...