Nicolette Spear
Nicolette Spear’s studio is located in Los Angeles, California.
Nicolette grew up on a horse farm in rural Maine where she worked hard everyday getting up early and toiling over her morning chores. Today living in Los Angeles, she gets up early everyday and she paints. With a BFA in painting from MassArt in Boston, Nicolette always knew that she wanted to be a painter. An oil painter specifically, it runs in her family. Her mother was an oil painter, her grandmother was an oil painter and her great grandmother was an oil painter. Nicolette always loved figure drawing and painting. To her the human form represents our vulnerability as well as our strength, our connection to nature, and the inescapable truth of our mortality. Somehow, through a series of unexpected events, having moved to Los Angeles, Nicolette became a body painter and has been working intimately painting on actual bodies for years, creating stunning art for music videos, TV, photoshoots, fashion shows and more.
She says, “The human body is the part of nature that we most directly relate to, it is the animal that we are. Technology makes us feel we are separate from nature; however, ironically, anything that we produce is natural because we as human beings are products of nature. Technology is a paradox that has pulled us away from ourselves. It also in many ways enhances our ability to create. I call our current conflict between technology and nature, “The Dopamine Era of Human History” and this series of work is titled “Dopamine.”