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Nadya Olcer | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Nadya Olcer
  • France
Of Armenian and Greek origin, Nadya was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey. She discovered the joy of painting in 1998 on beginning her training as an educational therapist, where she approached painting as a means of expression and mediation by conducting creative workshops for children with mental and behavioural disorders. Nadya then attended courses in art history in Paris. She discovered the great painters of the Middle Ages, was soothed by the work of Vermeer (Dutch painter of the seventeenth century), admired the strength of Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist of the twentieth century) and the philosophical reflection evoked by Joseph Beuys (German artist of the twentieth century).\n The artist first tried still lifes and sketches of models in Paris, then took a crucial trip to New York, where she painted small, tall, bright or dark towers, which then became characters and appeared in all kinds of media coming from salvaged materials, often decorated with natural elements. Without a draft, the artist uses acrylic, oil pastel and vinyl glue, which she loves for its malleable and translucent texture. As it dries, she continues retouching the paintings that seem eternally in need of perfection. For Nadya, painting should be neither conventional nor anecdotal. She does not seek to merely reproduce. The content of her paintings is imposed on her and she tries to give the audience her vision through her search for novelty, uniqueness and colour harmony. The artist strives to capture a timely and ephemeral emotion, in order to depict it with lightness and simplicity, somewhere between figuration and abstraction. She wants to ""say as much as possible by showing the least possible."" The artist’s work and her multiculturalism are continually enriched by Eastern, Indian and Mediterranean influences, drawn from music as well as poetry and literature. Her characters, often three in number, are a tribute to the suffering, upheaval and injustice to individuality.

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