Nicole Anderson

Art is the unspoken words of our soul.

Hello! My name is Nicole. A Melbourne, Florida local for the past 30 something years, I have been creating art since my small motor skills developed.

I was born in 1981, on Long Island, New York, into an abusive home, and living someone else's idea of who I am, art gave me my own reality, because love wasn't freely given to me, I created it for myself. 

The first sight of an empty canvas is exciting for me, so many possibilities, filled with energy I can see a mess of color, no shapes, no structure, just a mess, with the thrill of the unknown I take my brush and go wild with no destination, a squiggle here, a swift stroke there and there, plop my hand down in the paint pallete and start smearing it all over the canvas, a splash here, a drip there, the messier the better, then it appears, the subtle outline of a face, and the rest of my flow comes from within, it's as if it wasn't me painting, it was my soul speaking out. 

I don't know exactly why I paint what I paint, maybe it's different versions of myself, who I am, who I want to be, how I see myself on the inside, expansive, colorful, messy and free. Salvador Dali said, "Art doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be interesting", Dali encouraged me in my teen years to be messy, and see imperfection as beauty, in art as well as in others, and within myself, that chaos has its own form of beauty too, it creates a doorway to change, that understanding stays with me today. 

My passion for art held me and evolved over the past 12 years throughout my inner journey, a journey to find who I am authentically, beyond the person I was told that I am, my art is me, it is a reflection of the happiness deep inside of me, beneath any external discomfort the world presented, the part of me that couldn't be taken away, the happiness that lives inside all of us, the inner child who loves finger paints and there's never enough glitter, the inner child that sees all the color throughout the universe and gets excited, that place inside you where messy is fun and perfection doesn't exist, only freedom to be anyone you want to be, with no fear or any doubt, no rules that say you can't color outside of the lines.

That is what I want to share with the world, my limitless color, blending with yours, the beauty in imperfection and messy fun, the remembrance of freedom and expansion, no more fear to create the reality that you deserve to be in.

Art saved my life, better said, it gave me life. 

My art is the love that I create within myself, shared with you.