Nicole's Story Behind The Painting:

Kindling is material like small sticks and twigs you can use to start a fire. What would it mean to call my art kindling?

Painting allows me to react to everything and anything around me. But when I paint, these reactions are flowing through me, mixing with anything else that’s on my mind or lingering in my heart. And when I stop painting, the result is like an artifact, an object I can observe and try to better understand.

Kindling is the start of something. Or maybe it signals a readiness to come alive, to truly see what lies in those dimmed corners of the mind, and let the light inside of me burn a little brighter.