Untitled

Date

ND

Medium

Acrylic, Sharpie, and acrylic pen on paper

Dimensions

22 × 30 in

Categories

DrawingsabstractMarkerPaintingsAcrylic

Visual description

Nicole Storm's soft, abstract painting is composed of several layers of colors, square shapes, and Nicole's "notes", taking the form of lines of small hyphens. The image fills the entire page. Its background colors are shades of a soft lime green, cinnamon and red. Each of these background colors are placed in freely shaped rectangle forms, some with ochre as the background with red lines outlining it or green blotches framing the rectangle. The colors seem to spread as if moistened with water, producing shades of color. Starting at the upper left the background is splotches of ochre and greens, in no shape, and lines and symbols in a cluster over the background in black ink, filling the upper ¼ of the corner. Nicole says these are water drops in Hawaii. There are thin black rectangles grouping the symbols, overlapping one another. The rest of the paper is filled with abstract shapes of color with red being predominant under the symbols on the lower left of the page. Next to these on the lower right, is a red blotchy outline of a rectangle with no line at the bottom. The entire image looking from right to left gives the impression of someone trying to figure out a math equation, starting calmly and becoming more dedicated to the puzzle as the thought process moves to the upper left of the page. When asked what this piece was about, Nicole said it represents "all the people I love so much doing their art".