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Nicole Paris combines expressive color contrasts and strong strokes with subtle emotions to a dynamic dialogue in her artwork. She skillfully composes her paintings via the art of omission with spontaneous lines, acting as outlines, and color, thus managing to achieve an even stronger, vibrant statement. Quite often big, clear eyes with a penetrating glance draw the spectator under the spell of Nicole’s complex existential theme world but leave the story behind it open. Her works stimulate to project own ideas and associations to the illustrated human expressions, tensions and interactions, essential factors of her work, which he artist captures freehand and impulsively on to the canvas. In recent years Nicole Paris started to express her emotions strongly regarding the conflict situations women and girls are confronted with in our world of abundance and regarding the submission to religious dogmas, so the viewer is encouraged to reflect and discuss. Through her expressive form of painting she also wants to set a personal counterpoint concerning our,
by digital media, dominated world. In her current exhibition "Fräuleinwunder", at the Zürich Gallery Van Limburg Stirum, Nicole Paris shows a thematically arranged retrospective of her work, created as a tribute to young, attractive, self-confident, desirable, and young at heart
women of today.
In 2009 Nicole Paris Schürer received her bachelor of Fine Arts at the renowned art school Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London. After living in New York and London she returned to her hometown Vienna in 2010. She now lives in Switzerland, where she is a practicing artist regularly exhibiting at international art fairs and exhibitions.

Angelika Seebacher, Kunstmagazin PARNASS

The patron, art collector and donor, Wolfgang Schuller, wrote in a letter to the artist:

Your work surprised me so much that I can only partially put my impression on paper today. I am immensely amazed that you achieve a strong statement in what are actually outline drawings, which arouse feelings in the viewer and make them imagine what you want to express but have not actually depicted. Max Liebermann liked to use the phrase: "Drawing is the art of omission."

The impulsive "letting go" and freehand painting on canvas give the pictures a liveliness and closeness to life that makes them seem familiar and yet energetic. The special thing about your pictures is that the movement and gaze of the person depicted seem "frozen", but the picture still appears to be moving. The depiction of human expressions and tensions, as well as their interactions through the play with precise and strong lines and color accents, has become an unmistakable trademark.

Wolfgang Schuller, art collector and donor

Nicole Paris Schürer obtained her Bachelor of Fine Art in 2009 from the renowned Central Saint Martins University of the Arts in London. After stays in New York, London and Vienna, she lives and works in Switzerland. From here she regularly takes part in international art fairs and exhibitions and works as a freelance artist.