courtney nolden

Visual Art – Madison

About two years ago my life made a complete turn around. I was a happily married 24 year old Interior Designer thinking about the future. I thought life was perfect and black and white, then one night everything changed. After my marriage broke everything else started to fall apart and I began to see all the grey in life. After the divorce I started to live life for me, going back to school, traveling around the country and finally selling my art. I am going back to school for natural conservation because nature has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. I went on several road trips around the country to see as many different landscapes and ecosystems as I could. I traveled from Wisconsin to Wyoming to Arizona, taking as many nature photos as I could. The camera became a part of my hand. All this new confidence gave me the strength to start selling my art. I was scared that my art was never good enough to sell, I am my worst critic. But a friend told me about etsy and I decided to give it a shot. At first my art was dark(black, white, grey) but as the anger left more colors started to appear. I use my love of nature and my Interior Design background to inspire my abstract paintings. No matter what disaster happens in nature it is never the end but really a new beginning.