"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."
I met Nicole when she started modeling, she’s a talker and wildly entertaining. I caught her in one of her quiet moments at Hipbone Studio. This one of my favorite portraits. I used three colors, burt umber, alizarin crimson and ultramarine. It’s so simple and so strong.