Article published on September 27, 2024 as part of my personal exhibition at the 14th Assises nationales de la biodiversité in La Rochelle, on the website “Lespandaroux”, ecological magazine:
“These two days at the Assises nationales de la biodiversité have led us to Nicole King, an artist with an atypical career path. After a career as an environmental engineer for a multinational oil company, then as a “water and pollution” expert for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Nicole is now a painter and lecturer who uses her art to promote scientific ecology. Her message: “We’re witnessing a collapse in biodiversity. And in a way, a collapse of beauty in nature. Beauty is also disappearing in art, since it’s contemporary art, subjugated to business, “financial art” that has a say and rejects beauty. I’m an artist who wants to defend the beauty of nature and make works that take nature into account, that are beautiful and meaningful.
Nicole thus defends an “ecological art” and her figurative style, which follows in the tradition of the great masters whose techniques she has mastered, mixes water paint – echoing this theme which is dear to her – oil paint to evoke living things and, sometimes, photo transfer to evoke the irruption of human technology in nature. ”
Read the article, in French, on the website Les pandas roux : https://www.lespandasroux-lr.com/post/14e-assises-nationales-de-la-biodiversité-à-la-rochelle
