Artist: Duane Nickerson
Duane Nickerson is an award-winning, internationally recognized Canadian artist who lives and works in rural Nova Scotia. Born in 1965 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 1991 and the same year was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal Award for Graduate Study. Duane has travelled extensively, including a seven-year sojourn in Borneo. His paintings reside in public and private collections in Australia, Brunei, Canada, France, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, the UK and the United States. Read more about Duane on his profile.
We asked the artist:
What is your biggest indulgence as an artist?
Opening a bottle of red wine during an evening painting session.
What is important to you as an artist?
Following my own impulses and ignoring the market.
What challenges you the most in your practice?
The administrative tasks of maintaining a studio practice.
What themes or symbols are important to you as an artist?
The forces that drive the growth of forests and all living things fascinate me. I believe these forces are the same ones that cause some artworks to resonate through time.
If you were to hang one work of art by another artist in your home, which would you choose?
Theodore Rousseau.