ARTISTS ALLEY Sandra Nicolucci by Lyn Tremblay
A year before Sandra Nicolucci and her husband Blake had even graduated, they purchased their first home in the Oakridge community. “We lived in our first house for five years,” recalls Sandra. “When lots on Clearview became available, we built our current home and have lived here 46 years. When our house was 25, I had a party for her. I plan to do the same when she turns 50!” Over the years, the couple raised three children in the Clearview home, and they are now enjoying seven grandchildren, three of whom, with their parents, live on the same street as their grandparents and are growing up in the community. While raising their family, Sandra and Blake enjoyed careers in dentistry, in fact, all three of their children became dentists, and they married dentists! Six years ago, when it came time to retire and leave the family business in the hands of the next generation, Sandra found what she describes as one of her “greatest joys”. She decided to paint. “I thought I would write,” she says, “but painting came much easier and was fun.” After taking various classes exploring different mediums, even travelling to Italy for lessons in oil, she settled mainly on acrylics as her favourite. Many of her paintings are on large bold canvases and feature bright, colourful florals or the rugged beauty of rocks, perhaps inspired by those surrounding the family cottage in Georgian Bay. “I think I have always loved the different colours and shapes in rocks. I also love flowers,” she adds, “the bold colours and shapes. I always find it amazing how in nature different strong colours look so good together, and yet if we decorated that way it might look garish and cheap.”
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The couple loves to travel, and Sandra says she will take many photos of certain views and then paint them when she is back home in her studio. “I love painting different subjects,” she notes, “anything that brings joy and beauty to a canvas intrigues and challenges me.” In recent years, Sandra has found a way to share that “joy and beauty” by exhibiting and selling her work through shows and sales at local venues. She became a member of ArtwithPanache, a gallery located at 465 Richmond Street in the Talbot Centre, which represents the works of local artists. She will join other gallery artists in the upcoming show entitled ‘OH! Canada’, September 20 to October 10, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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