Marcia L. Nickols

medium: painting

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Buena Vista 2007 Painting	The Bull 2008 Painting	Eagle Harbor 2008 Painting
Ferry Ride 2008 Painting	Fall in Hidden Spring 2008 Painting	Roll On 2008 Painting
School House Beach 2007 Painting	Swishing Through 2008 Painting	Welcker's Point 2008 Painting

Contact information
PO Box 515
Ephraim, WI 54211-0515
Phone Number: 920-854-9369
Email Address: mnickols@charter.net
Web site: www.woodennickols.com

Artist statement
At this point, my art has primarily gone towards working in water color water, oil and now acrylics. I love the nature and water scenes that I see in Door County. My favorite subject is water, because of the challenges of the reflecting light and the changing movement of the colors. As water constantly changes, so does my art as I observe more in this environment. Combine that with the changes of light on the surface of things in nature, and I am never at a loss for subjects.

I find myself trying to get away from the hectic lives we live today, looking for the time of simpler needs to make people happy. When I walk, I look around and see things that catch my attention, not the whole scene, but I focus on just the beauty of that one thing. That is what stays in my mind and where I start thinking when I compose that object on a simple white surface. How can I bring out the essence of that one piece? How do I make it grand in its own self without the crutches of the environment in which it lives? These questions become the starting point for my art.

Biography
I was born in Eau Claire, Wis., and raised in Hawaii and the Midwest. I graduated with an Art Education major from UW-Eau Claire and earned my Masters in Art from UW-Madison. I have taught all grades and feel that 35 years of teaching art has taught me how to ‘see’ and be more creative. My greatest pleasure in teaching is getting students to see colors they never realized were there. I have retired from teaching and am spending my time painting and helping at the Francis Hardy Center for the Arts in the mentoring program and as a docent, taking classes and helping at the Peninsula Art School, working with the Door County Art league and showing my work at their gallery in Fish Creek, as well as other fine art fairs in the area. I am also represented at Charlene’s Gallery 10 in Gills Rock. I have studied with Door County artists Kari Anderson, Bridget Austin, Judy Barnewolt Jones, Ed Fenendael, Wendell Arneson, Collette Odya Smith and Mary Baushelt, as well as working with other artists in painting classes.