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Aimee E. Nichols
I was lucky enough to grow up in Orlando before Disney made its appearance. At an early age, I fell in love with Florida and all her natural beauty, places that you can still visit and some that are lost forever and preserved only in photographs.
My early training came from Mr. Bob Caruso, an art teacher, who gave me private lessons. In High School Art classes, taught by Mr. Wiley, I began to explore perspectives and color usage while building a strong foundation of line drawing and sketching.
A close family friend, Maury Hurt, instructed me in visual orientation and the basics of “paint what you see” artwork. Maury taught me the very simple law of “Color Reflects Color”. Maury also instilled in me the passion that kept me going through all those years and even today.
I am heavily influenced by the “Highwaymen” school of painting and have admired their free and easy styles combined with their incredible use of color shading. My goal is to preserve, on canvas, the areas of Florida that may be on the “Endangered List” very soon as development rapidly uses up available land and destroys forever those special places.
Two years of Art Classes at Seminole Community College gave me a solid foundation in the art and influenced me even further in basic techniques I learned there through experience, techniques that influence my painting today.
I also have a deep commitment to pass along traditional Florida craft techniques which have been taught and preserved by generations of indigenous residents. Some of the traditions brought forward are the weaving of “Boondoggles” which were a form of traditional gifting and were made in times when scrub pioneers needed a gift or present for a special occasion. Boondoggles are made from one entire leaf of Cabbage or Sabal palm and were woven in the “lanyard weave” style. You can also use palmetto for boondoggles but palmetto makes the most delightful “berry baskets” or utilitarian baskets, usually made on the spot and were to carry items of harvested food.
My bio of shows include Barberville Fall Jamboree, and Christmas celebration and I have taught classes as well. Fort Christmas, Christmas in Florida, Mt. Dora art show, Saint Augustine spring and fall shows, Sarasota Ringling Museum, The Catfish Festival, Crescent City, classes there at a local gallery. The Gamble Rogers festival, White Springs Folk Festival, Classes at our local Council on Aging and numerous other Art Shows throughout Florida.
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