“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Close your eyes, allow these words to float across the blank canvas of your mind. Slowly, connect all your swirling emotions, the memories and experiences that personify you. Now, Paint these vivid colors of your soul!
This is the essence of my work, with each stroke I aim to inspire beauty and hope from the ashes of sadness and pain. Art became a beacon of light for me at the early age of my teen years. In a span of about 6 years I lost all my Grandparents and my oldest sister. These tribulations combined with other adversities in my young life deeply wounded me. If not for the blank canvas of creativity, love, and the will to persevere, my colors surely would be gray and dull. Now as the wounds have healed. I look to others pain, to inspire them to find beauty within their continual struggle to carry on.
I grew up in a family of 8 in the snow and tundra of upstate NY. If not quickly enough I matured just sufficiently to make it out of New York and to North Carolina for college. After graduating from UNC at Chapel Hill I went on to pursue my fortune in finance. Of course the world had other plans and I soon realized my passion for art and the idea to inspire far outweighed a monotonous pre-planned life. My path eventually took me to Maui. This is where I began studying sculpture (wood, stone and clay) under my mentors, Steve and Christine Turnbull. After living in Hawaii for 3 years I moved back to North Carolina to be with family and bring my talents to the beautiful city of Charlotte. Here I work with Juliano Fine Art and other great businesses to further my career as a successful artist.
Along the many roads I have traveled I fell in love. It was a love that took me from the brink of despair to a sunrise of new beginnings. I learned a joy in life that was able to set fire to the ocean. Yet happiness comes and goes, as does sadness; an occurrence I would learn more than once. Alone, loveless and distressed, I found my lesson. One in which love always has the power to create and life is about the perception of hope. That self-reflection is about self-realization. So that one might turn the strength of the human spirit into a light of infinite beauty, to inspire a world beyond one of sadness.
It is my dream now, to find the void within each canvas so that I may flood it with color.
~Nate
This is the essence of my work, with each stroke I aim to inspire beauty and hope from the ashes of sadness and pain. Art became a beacon of light for me at the early age of my teen years. In a span of about 6 years I lost all my Grandparents and my oldest sister. These tribulations combined with other adversities in my young life deeply wounded me. If not for the blank canvas of creativity, love, and the will to persevere, my colors surely would be gray and dull. Now as the wounds have healed. I look to others pain, to inspire them to find beauty within their continual struggle to carry on.
I grew up in a family of 8 in the snow and tundra of upstate NY. If not quickly enough I matured just sufficiently to make it out of New York and to North Carolina for college. After graduating from UNC at Chapel Hill I went on to pursue my fortune in finance. Of course the world had other plans and I soon realized my passion for art and the idea to inspire far outweighed a monotonous pre-planned life. My path eventually took me to Maui. This is where I began studying sculpture (wood, stone and clay) under my mentors, Steve and Christine Turnbull. After living in Hawaii for 3 years I moved back to North Carolina to be with family and bring my talents to the beautiful city of Charlotte. Here I work with Juliano Fine Art and other great businesses to further my career as a successful artist.
Along the many roads I have traveled I fell in love. It was a love that took me from the brink of despair to a sunrise of new beginnings. I learned a joy in life that was able to set fire to the ocean. Yet happiness comes and goes, as does sadness; an occurrence I would learn more than once. Alone, loveless and distressed, I found my lesson. One in which love always has the power to create and life is about the perception of hope. That self-reflection is about self-realization. So that one might turn the strength of the human spirit into a light of infinite beauty, to inspire a world beyond one of sadness.
It is my dream now, to find the void within each canvas so that I may flood it with color.
~Nate
Nate show’s his work in Maui, HI at Turnbull Fine Art Studios. He was recently featured in a juried art show “The Cutting Edge” at the HUI NO’EAU in Makawao, HI. and also in the "The Story of the Creative" in NYC.