Nicole Caulfield

Self-Portrait with Still-Life

Still-life and portrait artist Nicole Caulfield's work is shown regularly in New England galleries and has been shown nationally and internationally in shows such as the Catharine Lorillard Show and Salmagundi Show in NYC, the Guild of Realism Show in Scottsdale Arizona, and the UKCPS Show in Nottingham England where she won first prize in 2007. Nicole teaches her unique colored pencil techniques nationally and locally near Keene, NH. Artist's Statement: I am drawn to realism and the subjects I render for many reasons, but I always come back to the beauty of the ordinary, and the challenge of the rendering. The beauty of ordinary objects lit perfectly sitting on a table, the light hitting a child's eyes so that sparkle comes through, the light bouncing around the inside of a box, these ordinary, yet spectacular moments, inspire me to create a piece of artwork. Then there is the challenge of creating the piece. I wish everyone who looked at my work could experience the joy I have in creating it: from the sweet anxiety of the very first pencil stroke, to the exciting point in which the image starts to become 3-D, and finally the bittersweet conclusion of that last stroke. If they could feel that, then they would understand me.

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degree: Bachelors, Northern Illinois University School of Art 1997 gallery representation: Monadnock Fine Art Gallery, Main St, Keene, NH Sharon Arts Juried Gallery, downtown Peterborough, NH Congress Street Art Gallery, 75 Congress St. Portsmouth, NH Gallery 297, 297 Hope St, Bristol, RI awards: 2007 - First Place in UKCPS Annual International Juried Show, Nottingham, UK. 2007 - Juror's Choice Award, "Play with your Food" exhibition, Sharon Art Gallery, Peterborough, NH 2007 - Prismacolor Award, The Art of Colored Pencil New England Juried Show, Gallery 297, Bristol Rhode Island. 2007 - First Place Art in the Park, Keene, NH, dry media catergory. 2006 - Finalist in the 23rd Annual Artist's Magazine Art Competition in the Still- Life Category. 2005 - Second Place Art in the Park, Keene NH, dry media catergory. 2005 - First place in the 2005 Keene Art Association Spring Juried Show. 2004 - Second Place Art in the Park, Keene, NH, dry media catergory. 1996 - Recipient Peg Bonds Art Scholarship based on artistic merit, Northern Illinois University School of Art selected shows in addition to shows listed above: 2008 -International Guild of Realism Juried Show at the Scottsdale Art Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. 2007 - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 111th Open Annual Exhibition, New York, NY. 2007 - Biennial Regional Jurors' Choice Competition, Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH. 2006 - 14th Annual International Colored Pencil Competition with the CPSA. 2006 - Salmagundi Annual Open Non-Members Exhibition, NY, New York. 1997 - One Man Show - Northern Illinois University. in print: Created all the artwork for the brochure for the Luminance pencils by Caran D' Ache. Click images to enlarge. Created 3 colored pencil kits for sale at www.annkullberg.com. teaching experience: 2008 - Caribbean cruise workshop with Ann Kullberg. 2007 - Alaskan cruise workshop aboard the Sun Princess with authors Ann Kullberg and Anne De Mille Flood. 2005-present - adult & children art courses at Artworks, Keene, NH. 2006-present - Workshop instructor at the Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH. memberships: CPSA - Colored Pencil Society of America district webmaster International Guild of Realism Keene Art Association Sharon Art Center Gallery

Contact Nicole:
nicolecaulfield@gmail.com