LETTING ALL PARTS OF YOU COME THROUGH (Suggested for Stage Four; Integration) Sally Veach’s work walks that appealing line of abstraction and representational. In this month’s Art Critique she shares how she wants to make landscape paintings, but as her natural tendency of letting intensity and...

LESS CAN BE MORE (Suggested for Stage Five; Flow) This month’s Art Critique is with Alice Sheridan. Alice came to Nick wanting to know how to go to the next place with her work. She liked what was happening in her sketchbooks, but hasn’t been quite able to translate that to her paintings....

STAY IN THE JOY (Suggested for Stage Four; Integration) As what often happens in many of our dual critiques, we learned that both artists faced similar challenges in their work. Karen Lehrer and Magdalena Bogart each found they were really enjoying their process… to a point. Then they became...

FINDING CLARITY IN OUR WORK (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) This Art Critique is with Nancy Farrell and Judith Ely. Both artists came to Nick with similar concerns about their art. They each felt they weren’t quite sure where they were going in their work—that something was missing—and...

KNOWING OR NOT KNOWING IS VALID, BUT PRINCIPLES STILL APPLY (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) Ashwini Raghuram’s paintings are spontaneous, intuitive and uncontrolled and Karen Meadow’s paintings are partly guided by internal feelings and thoughts. Both approaches are equally valid....