by Fred Nicholson | Jan 29, 2021 | Thought Full Seeds
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all lived within such a happy family? This 3′ x 3′ work is stretched canvas over a wood frame. The entire surface is collaged. Most of the images were surgically cut out with medical scalpels. Many of the images were...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 4, 2018 | Thought Full Seeds
I feel that instead of the ‘Melting Pot’ our country is designated as, separate ‘Color Lines’ have always been the case. Is that true or not? This 3′ x 3′ work is stretched canvas over a wood frame. The piece is composed of 100%...
by Fred Nicholson | Nov 3, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
This is my Creation Theory. The eggs were spray painted and photographed in my backyard. Some were hard boiled. 21 had to be handled gingerly as they were raw. The three hard-boiled ones had slightly tinted whites. Kaia and I ate one of them anyway. So far so good....
by Fred Nicholson | Nov 3, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
The original of this piece was stolen in the Fall of 2014 while I was moving the art pieces between the vehicle and my rented storage unit at Pro-Guard Self Storage in Poulsbo, WA. My unit was #615 and other folks were in the building at the same time. If you...
by Fred Nicholson | Nov 3, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
This piece first materialized as a name. Spirit Rising. Then over a few months the visual began to manifest. I have received feedback from many friends regarding this piece, with as many interpretations. I will share mine with you. At this moment there is at least one...
by Fred Nicholson | Nov 3, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
Life is meant to be lived, but living isn’t necessarily the act of indulging in all the ‘things’ that we engage with on the road. I have included various themes that may tempt and consume us, even as we believe we are the consumers. – Fred Most...
by Fred Nicholson | Nov 3, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
This piece was started and completed after I returned home from a stay in the hospital, recovering from injuries sustained in a head-on automobile collision. Notice the transition in the sky. I had completed the sky for the second panel of a three part work entitled...
by Fred Nicholson | Nov 3, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
This piece was designed specifically for the 20th Anniversary Issue of the Seattle Review. The required theme was celebratory and the passage of time. Twist of Time is what I came up with. I was very surprised to see an earlier piece, actually my very first collage,...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 9, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
I completed the 3rd part, ‘Home Sweet Home’ first. I entered it in the National Collage Society’s Annual Juried Show and it won a merit award. That was in October 2000. This work symbolizes how different peoples arrived in the New World. Some were...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 9, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
I next began on the second part, ‘Passage’. Due to a major auto accident, the completion of this piece was curtailed. When I was able to continue work on this piece, the images were too painful to deal with and I put them away. I completed another piece...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 9, 2014 | Collage, Thought Full Seeds
This project took well over one year from start to completion. The three parts are ‘Birth’, ‘Passage’ and ‘Home Sweet Home’. The name came to me first and I scribbled a rough draft of what the piece would look like. At that time, I...
