Blog | Nicole de Picciotto

success and failure and us

One of the reasons I started painting was to establish my own authenticity in the face of other's opinions. In college I gave up art as...

serious play

Now more than ever I'm feeling the need to channel playfulness, and I'm thankfully making more and more room for it in my creative...

playing at the edges

“I believe I will never quite know. Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing” -Mary Oliver “Bone” I am...

making art in a crisis

A coaching client asked herself this week if she should really be painting. After all, we’re in the middle of many crises: a global...

curiosity-medicine

A lot of the early stages of a painting come from the question, "what would happen if...?" When this question gets ignited, it feels...

wonder heals

In my coaching practice I'm noticing the inevitable psychological impacts of the pandemic deepening, even as we approach a more lasting...

Emerging from the chrysalis

The past year and a half has been a chrysalis. Month after month wrapped in the cushion of my little cocoon, seeds were planted and...

Painting as medicine

90% of why I paint is because it is my medicine. I set aside true expressive art-making for two decades once judgments crept in so much...

Expressive art is more about listening than talent

Sure, I can draw a face or a flower with relative accuracy. And I know how to mix colors and apply paint. But all that can be learned...

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