An article by Sandra appears in the International Artist Magazine - December / January 09, issue 64. "Unlocking a door to creativity Sandra Nicholl reveals her skeleton keys for gaining entry into a world of wonder and enlightenment workshop"
Check out Sandra's Latest paintings, Local wild flowers and a nude.
Let me take you on a journey, a voyage of discovery. I have been painting in oils for about 35 years and I am self-taught. Unknown to me at the time, my early fumblings were a very crude form of renaissance technique. When the odd TV programme on renaissance painting methods appeared I realised these were the methods I was using naturally. It seemed so logical to go about it in this manner.
I now use recipes centuries old and have amalgamated these with my own techniques and ideas, resulting in a style that is unique to me. Velaturas, translucent veils of colours that permit diffused light to come through are superimposed over each other in my paintings, accompanied by Sfumato, smoke-like edges that create “air” around the subject, producing an elusive “glow” and then, the “wow” factor. For me these are the “Holy Grail”: difficult to capture but well worth the blood sweat and tears, sacrificed in the quest.
Painting to me is about breaking boundaries, pushing the medium as far as I can. I don’t profess to know everything and I never will but it is a joy trying. Time stands still while I paint and I experience a sensation of exhilaration, the merging of my painting with me – we are one. It is difficult to explain; I suppose the nearest experience is giving birth.
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