Jeannette Cooper Nicholson is a contemporary painter whose love of color and lights is vividly portrayed in her canvases.  Her work is about the beauty and fragility of life. She has chosen to take her forms from nature and her expressions from her heart. The technique of using layers of transparent pigments to build up layers allows the underlying colors to show through and helps achieve the luscious color that she is known for.
The Artist’s Magazine wrote this of her work, “Brilliant color and tightly focused composition
combine to create eye-grabbing energy.”

 Nicholson says, “Painting enlarges my soul. It is such a solitary profession, but yet, it is when I feel least alone. It is the time I learn more about myself. A time to consider my strengths and my weaknesses. A time to explore my spirituality.” 

Thomas Moore beautifully expressed how Nicholson feels about her work when he said in
Care of the Soul, “We may get to a point where our external labors and the opus of the soul
are one and the same, inseparable. Then the satisfaction of our work will be deep
and long lasting, undone neither by failures nor by flashes of success.”  

Living on the barrier island of Johns Island, South Carolina she fuels her passion
as she paints blooms from the garden of her husband Jim.
 

Please click any of the paintings for a  larger  image

“Dance of the Firebird”
       Oil on canvas
      48x60
      SOLD