Nicole Waasdorp

Autonomous artist, 1966, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Email: nowisnow888@gmail.com

Mobile: 0031633304823

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/sunfoodmusic/

• Autonomous arts, HKU- Hoge School voor de Kunsten Utrecht, the Netherlands 1990 - 1993

Teachers:

• 1980 Aquarel landscape Cees van der Horst https://www.smulweb.nl/blog/post/cees-van-der-horst

• 1984 ECL mr. Binnendijk exam Art & mr. Remmelt van Veelen Geography & photography https://remmeltvanveelen.nl/

• 1989 Nicolas Dings workshops in van Gogh museum: 1. Mixed media and 2. Model painting plus making own paint with pigments https://www.instagram.com/nicolasdings/

• 1990-1993 HKU - Hoge School voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, the Netherlands https://www.hku.nl/ no graduation because did not wish to specialise (had to specialise in 3rd year: painting-sculpture or graphic di not go for that: preferred to stay free of choice what way to expres (what in my vison is Art about). Teachers of great inspiration here were: mr. Guus Rekers https://www.theaterkrant.nl/tag/guus-rekers/, Willem Gorter https://es-la.facebook.com/willem.gorter.31, Rien van der Nat https://www.tuttobene.nl/galerie-rien-van-der-nat-leiden/

• Performance collective with choreography by Anne de Vilder inspired by Pina Bausch https://nl.linkedin.com/in/anne-de-vilder-7387a024

• Travel & work: UK (Orset & Basildon) and Saudi Arabia (Rhyadh)

• Travels & works: Thaliand, Bali, Costa Rica, West Africa, France, Portugal, Spain, Catalunya, Greece, Germany, Belgium, North America

• Lived with native American family. 2006.  With Chief Big Eagle family AKA Aurerlius Piper who was named hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation by his mother, Chieftess Rising Star, in 1959. Piper later took up residence in the Paugussett's quarter-acre reservation in Trumbull, Connecticut.

• AGA (Amsterdam Grafic Atelier) from 1993 til 1996 https://agalab.nl/ mono prints, etching, lino prints

• 2009, Talent night Amsterdam, consultation haute couture bags by Daryl van wouw (fashion), Lee Stuart (fashion - lifestyle), Nalden (blogger- lifestylñe ) http://www.darylvanwouw.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lee_stuart/ https://www.nalden.net/

• Deeply inspired by following artists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

• Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden

• Photography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_van_der_Elsken

• Grasphic mixed media: https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Rien-van-der-Nat/4B8F0E1FA5915BCD

• Oracle; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

• Icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan

• Inspired by Fashion designer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel

Present: Lives in St. Llorence de la Muga, Catalunya. Girona