... wax artist

NICOLE COLLINS
branch, New Paintings
Press Release

Collins says of the new work; "stripe paintings emerged as a way of parsing the complexity of plant material... the patterns appear random but, of course, there is no 'random'. The layers of wax, the ambient temperature, the strength of my conviction to dig in, all of these contribute to the end result."
The process of painting with wax is a quick and unforgiving, but one which Collins handles very well to create her own language as an abstract painter. Wax suspends, it captures things, but in Collins' work ideas are not fossilized: we are witness to the fresh trails of life. And if read that way, we can look at the paintings as if staring into the face of creation - that of the painting, and the idea.