Hi I am Zoran,
Thanks for visiting my website and the gallery. I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you few things about myself.
Everything I believe and everything that I am erupts from my art. I am an artist, engineer, musician, and an eternal student of life.
I was born in the hilly Balkans in a country that is no longer on the geopolitical maps. Unlike today, back then the world was more polarized at the very top-top and less at the bottom.
The sketch above in the lower right corner shows the street and the building where I grew up. In the lower left corner I drew myself as a baby with my parents. I cry for paper and pencil to sketch my impressions from the first nine months of my life.
Art has been a large part of my world for as long as I can remember. Even as a child, I experienced art as whirlpool of vibrations that emerge from colors and lines and captivate and resonate with the mind and heart. I still feel art that way and I am fascinated how it affects and touches our lives.
Art and painting have always fascinated me, but not only through admiring the works of old masters. Ever since I know for myself, I feel the need to express myself through drawings, paintings and sculptures. I feel the need to convey to the viewer the emotions I feel as I observe the scene I am painting. I don't paint what I see with my eyes, I let my emotions and mind play with color, and through lines and palette I express feelings that come out of my heart.
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I am not tied to a particular medium or style. I like to experiment with new techniques and try new things. I used to make extra money by drawing cartoons and I still enjoy watching people's reactions when they see the caricature on which they are represented. I find inspiration in people and the objects around me and in the places where I live or have lived. I see things that others usually miss. |
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As a child, I spent summers on the shores of the Adriatic and the Aegean Sea. This is where my fascination with the Mediterranean comes from. A small cove, a boat or a shell have always been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me. Sailing the Adriatic, Caribbean and the Gulf and scuba diving only intensified my love for seascapes. I try to translate through color in my paintings the good vibrations I experience when observing nature.
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I am an electrical engineer with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and by my nature I like to understand how things work. Many times I turned complex problems into simple, beautiful and intuitive solutions. I see beauty in the strangest places like mathematical equation, engineering idea, clever concept or design. It is the challenge of the entire creative process that interests me the most.
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| My love for art doesn't end with paintings. I love music and sometimes I have nothing better to do than playing piano. I started learning around 10 yrs old, and have never stopped...
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I live with my family in a suburb of Houston and use a motorcycle as main means of my transportation. |
I believe..
- Imperfection is source of beauty. Perfection is boring. Journey to perfect is what interests me not destination.
- People need to encourage and support one another no matter what.
- Dreams rarely come true if you do not work on them while you are awake
- Decision you make today will determine your future.
- In lifelong learning
- Most of us live in our own worlds and rarely leave them, unaware that life elsewhere works in a completely different way,
This site is my gallery. Please browse and you'll find few things on sale. Each piece is only available in a limited number of copies. I believe that I am original and unique and I want my art to be the same.
I wish you you Health, Love and Happiness Always.
-Zoran Nikolic
