Be unapologetically yourself. Nicholas Holman's story on becoming a successful artist by being his true self.
Artist Nick Holman chats with Melissa Bright about what it means to be unapologetically yourself. He shares his advice on what people should do if they are doubting themselves and their dreams. He gets personal about what self sabotage can look like for a successful person and steps to avoid it. He touches on the importance of work/ life balance.
Although artistic blood runs through his veins, Nicholas, a third-generation artist born in 1993 in St. Louis, Missouri, did not discover his love of artistic inspiration and creation until 2015. Since then, he can be found wandering the urban and rural landscape, paintbrush in hand.
Nicholas appreciates the characteristics of a variety of artistic mediums and, therefore, does not restrict himself to one. Typically, he expresses himself through gouache, pastels, charcoal, oils, and digital although he has also been known to dapple in photography and to use his own body as a canvas.
Nicholas' drive to create echoes as a visceral compulsion. Fortunately, he has orchestrated his life in a way that he surrounds himself with habits of artistic exploration, offering a multitude of subjects to satiate his creative appetite. Nicholas sees inspiration as not a dream to be waited and wished upon, but as a muse of opportunity born of the willingness to seek out and appreciate the beauty in his surroundings.
Professionally, in the near future, Nicholas will enter his paintings into competitions and seek gallery representation. Eventually, he sees himself opening his own studio to host classes and to inspire younger artists' aspirations whether artistic or mundane. On the personal side, Nicholas yearns to travel the world while painting en plein air the whole way around. While he waits on his opportunity for global adventure, he will continue creating big, home-cooked meals for friends and family and appreciating the adventures that await.
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