Nicol Francis Hendruk *1998

I was born to Czech parents in Arizona and grew up alternating between the United States and the Czech Republic. I attended high school in Karlovy Vary, where I also studied in
I'm currently alive.
I'm self-taught. I have been drawing with passion since I could hold a pencil. It's been one of my favorite ways to express myself ever since. I draw from my imagination, intuitively, without
reference images. When I create, I let myself be guided by a certain feeling and urge of my hand. Each line then guides me further, and what eventually appears on paper is often
a surprise even to me. I draw inspiration from different sources. A song or a style of music, a dance, a film or a comic strip, a particular situation, a curious character from a story or a person from life catches my attention. It makes me experience moments of excitement and fascination, or fear and shame. I have always been fascinated by the natural beauty of the human body, which is why I love to draw figures and figures in motion, from different angles. It is interesting to me that a person can express many things in many different ways. I like to portray nudity, vulnerability, openness and intimate experiences. I am generally interested in depicting people, especially women, because that is who I am, what I know, what I recognize and what inspires me.

I draw on white paper (A4 - 21 x 29.7 cm) and use a mixture of different creative materials such as pencils, coloured and watercolour crayons, ink pens, markers, drypoint and oil pastels.

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