Nicholas Coley. Now this is a talented artist with a very cool story – don’t miss it! I love the perspective of his paintings – it’s a bit different from the norm and I think it’s so interesting. My emails back and forth with Nick and with his wife, Tracy, tell me one thing… these are good people. It’s not easy to make a living from selling paintings, but it doesn’t surprise me that Nick can do just that. His paintings speak to you – the paintings are large and bold – and each has a different feel – love the signature too! I wish him much success!
Cypress Tree on the Panoramic Highway #10 – whoa! Don’t you love the colors and the way this feels as if you’re zipping down the highway? And… those trees!! They are stunning!
Look at that little bit of pink in the upper left corner. What a PERFECT touch! That little bit of pink makes this painting (to me)! And again… those trees in the distance. Wow!
See more of Nicholas’s work via these links:
Website | Facebook | Instagram
Read a bit about Nicholas, from his website:
Nicholas Coley was born in Connecticut in 1971 and raised in Muir Beach, California. He hitch hiked around the states for a couple years after high school trying to find Don Juan and Carlos Castenada. He was sure he had a destiny to become a medicine man or a brujo, but after getting hepatitis in a hostel in Santa Fe, he moved to Europe and studied art at the Beaux-Arts plus another small school for painting in the south of France. He lived, studied, and meditated daily for a year in a Buddhist Monastery outside of Bordeaux. After reading ‘The tropic of Capricorn’ by Henry Miller, he decided he was not meant for the disciplined, monastic life and went off in search for a more creative and spontaneous world, taking him to Prague for a year and selling paintings to tourists on the Charles Bridge. From there he took the transiberian railroad through Russia and deep into China before having a complete spiritual collapse in the summer of ’94. The good news is it’s been a slow climb back up the mountain toward the benificenece and belonging of a higher power. Anchored by the love of a good woman he’s actually been able to support his family, two extraordinary little kids (and another on the way), even putting a downpayment on a house…all exclusively with the procedes from painting sales, which he’s damn proud of and still sort of in dumb happy shock. For almost 20 years now he has been painting full time, almost everyday. Turns out, he was something of a medicine man after all.
I told you! Great bio, wasn’t it? Click HERE to read Nicholas’s Artist’s Statement – equally as good!
Catch you back here tomorrow!