For twenty years, painting has been a systematic research, a job of mathematics pushed towards its limits: until where is it possible to put side by side, square by square, colours, materials and patterns?
After this long personal search, she freed herself to find her own way.

“ Today I can paint my way ”. Instead of putting side by side, Nicole wants to mix, just thinking about the never ending evolution.
She’s passing by her paintings with her inside feelings, her personal emotions, her inspiration. She wants to mix inspiration from abroad : Morocco which has influenced her childhood with its arabesques and the music filling her studio while she’s working, This energy, maybe divine inside, helps her to create masterpieces.
 

"I’m thinking of painting over and over again"

Nicole is building her paintings colour after colour. For every masterpiece, she needs a figurative work to feed her painting.
These figurative paintings are a motivation, her desire for creation. The figurative patterns bring along a tone, forms and colours.
This figurative job can be painting but also observing, looking around what’s happening. This is a conscious and permanent job in daily life which requires to be awake at any moment, to listen to herself at any time but also being able to forget herself sometimes. The main goal is what the masterpiece will be.
This work blooms with a sort of meditation mood.
 

Nicole needs to centre herself to start painting. With music, with quietness but also by having fun, creating small frames freeing her from any kind of negative and positive points, she needs to liberate herself from anything that could blocks the creating process. Writing several words, drawing the first drafts which are going to find out colours and forms which will give birth to her tomorrow creations.
  

She’s also making figurative paintings, landscapes, where we could find the same atmosphere as in her other masterpieces from the same moment. The colours she likes using at a precise moment as well as the forms she’s working with.
One after another, the paintings will become more abstract and the size becoming bigger and bigger. She’s painting quickly, she’s trying things, she´s having fun with colours, materials and forms. Every frame contains a bit from the previous one. A constant evolution between figurative and abstract, little and big sizes of paintings ... until one result : the painting she wanted.

                                                                                            Irène Almès
                                                                                                                        Writer Reporter