Nicole Martinelli

Artist Statement

I create to share the beauty I find in nature and the quiet comfort it offers all of us. My art has always been about feeling finding the emotion inside a flower, a field, or a fall of light, and inviting the viewer to step into that quiet, and much brighter world. I began as an oil painter, shaped by my love of Van Gogh and Monet. When serious illness made traditional painting impossible, I refused to stop seeing I turned to photography, which taught me to find grace and composition in the world exactly as it is. . I use only shifts in saturation, contrast, and color to draw out the feeling I felt in that instant, so the image carries the emotion of the moment rather than just its likeness. I am drawn to fleeting moments in time the ones that pass in a breath and my hope is to encapsulate them for everyone to enjoy, in a place where time does not exist. There, the viewer can stand inside the moment and stay as long as they wish. My longing to paint again never faded. So I built a new way to answer, my hand-painted E-painting, created stroke by stroke with a stylus on a touchscreen. Nothing is generated or digitally assembled every mark is made by my own hand. The medium is new, but the impulse behind it is the oldest one I carry. As an E-painter, I am incorporating my previous painting skills as an oil painter with my technical knowledge acquired from Digital Photography. I create my E-Paintings organically from my mind, using my stylus as my brush and my touchscreen monitor as if it were my Canvas. Having a hands on approach every step of the creative process is essential to myself as an artist. Both my photogarphy and My artworks prompt us to value nature, our environment, and to conserve, cherish and to have adeep apprecition for our natural resources as nature naturally intended. Especially in these ever changing crazy times we are living in nature is always there for us there is always a sunset to brighten out lives and a stream lake or ocean to catch our tears! As For My E-paintings they live between abstract impressionism and pure abstraction, where form dissolves into movement color and feeling. Whether I am working through my lens or painting across a screen, I am always reaching for the same thing a moment of stillness and wonder that the viewer can be comforted and rest inside. At the heart of everything I capture and paint the belief I hold close is that our life storms and irt soil of our difficult times just as nature, allow us to bloom to our full potential. If my work reminds even one person of that, and they recieve the same happiness and peace thtat I recieve from my artistic passions then my goal as an artist has been reached and has done exactly what I hoped. We all hold the pen and brush to your own story, You are limitless! - Nicole Martinelli