MARIANNA NICHOLS
Using collages to express her fascination with mysticism, femininity, and the Divine Goddess, Marianna creates unique blends of images that reveal the duality between human consciousness and unconsciousness. Marianna uses real-world images in her art, pulling materials from vintage magazines, old photographs, and antique books. Through her work, Marianna has found a balance between the ever-elusive realms of magic and reality. Claiming a vision that is ethereal yet decidedly earthy and real, Marianna’s art speaks volumes about beauty and femininity, as well as the burden of being human in this shimmering entangglement of time and space. In the stars there lies aninfinite truth while on earth we can only gather flowers, feel the trees, and gaze upward at the vast glimmer, searching for answers. Marianna’s art is part of the search and part of the answer. .
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”-Anaïs Nin
Marianna’s work has appeared in
Viriditas - An Anthology of Contemporary Women Artists (UK) 2014
Ballad Of...Magazine (UK) 2014
Magpie Magazine (UK) 2014
World Wide Women (France) 2013
Unity Salon (US) 2013
The Cosmic Collage (US) 2013
Mystic Mamma (US) 2012
Oliva Eden Publishing (US) 2012
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”-Anaïs Nin
Marianna’s work has appeared in
Viriditas - An Anthology of Contemporary Women Artists (UK) 2014
Ballad Of...Magazine (UK) 2014
Magpie Magazine (UK) 2014
World Wide Women (France) 2013
Unity Salon (US) 2013
The Cosmic Collage (US) 2013
Mystic Mamma (US) 2012
Oliva Eden Publishing (US) 2012