LINDA NICKELL is inspired by the colors, shapes, lines and textures in nature; she develops many layers and surfaces within her work. Each added mark and paint stroke coupled with excavating back into the surface reveals the history of the piece. She enjoys finding hidden beauty in a landscape and employ abstraction to bring forth the essence of the scene. The process of working with oil and cold wax involves time and patience and allows her to create many transparent and opaque layers which she can manipulate with additive and subtractive techniques. Just as our life’s story takes time through the years to build, Nickell’s paintings have a history and narrative of their own. It is her hope that the art she creates brings the viewer into a closer looking experience and succeeds in expressing the beauty, intrigue and depth in the world around us.