BIO: NIDHI WIESNER

Nidhi Wiesner has experimented with different art forms, from Realism through to Figurative Expressionism and Abstract Art. She was educated at the Fine Art Institute in Cologne, the German Art capital. Her teacher, mentor and speaker at her first Vernissage at the Popplesdorf Gallery in Bonn in 1983, was the well-known artist Karl Marx. His influence and that of other European artists of the time -Francis Bacon, William de Kooning and Anselm Kiefer, coupled with her love of travel and interest in Eastern meditation, has created a special mix and fuel to inspire her work over the last 25 years. Nidhi has travelled throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and USA.

An accomplished painter, art therapist, yoga teacher, reiki healer, mother and meditator (one of the reasons she has visited India on several occasions), all these influences have come together to inspire her work over the last 25 years.

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Standing in Nidhi’s studio, one very powerful painting catches the eye. “What’s this one about?”

Nidhi smiles enigmatically  “what does it mean for you?” And this question goes to the very heart of why Nidhi is a painter.

Nidhi explains that to get to the place where she is actually painting can take a long time, many hours of sitting or standing in front of a blank canvas – and this because, as she says “to be in a state of “no-mind” or conscious awareness, can take an instant or an age”.

The trick, she explains, is to get out of one’s own way, to go inside to uncover one’s spirit, the core and essence of “me”, to be a witness and begin there to allow the alchemy to occur – the bridge from being in the here-now to painting.

A Spiritual Master once said: “Meditation starts by being separate from the mind, by being a witness. That is the only way of separating yourself from anything. If you are looking at the light, naturally one thing is certain: you are not the light, you are the one who is looking at it…You are the watcher.”

This is the beginning point for Nidhi’s art  – an observer, to the “me”, the “Self”, until the me that is the ego dissolves and Nidhi becomes one with the painting. And from there whatever happens in the painting is an allegory, a record even, of what is taking place in her spirit, her soul. And this is what reaches out to touch and engage the viewer.

Nidhi’s paintings are about wherever and however the painting touches you the viewer, how it makes you feel, how it speaks to you and how you resonate with it. It’s really more about you, than about the painting. Nidhi says that she is just a vessel through which the materials of paint (liquid, oils and stone) and canvas come together in physical form to speak to you. Where the language of painting: material, technique, form and content are transformed through an alchemy into a singular expression of meaning and hopefully, delight for the viewer.

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Germany

Aachen, Bonn, Bremen, Delmenhorst, Köln, Mannheim,

Stadt Oberkirch, Schwarzwald

Spain

Barcelona

Australia

Sydney (The Rocks), Woollahra, Leichhardt, Randwick, Byron Bay, Murwillumbah, Gold Coast.

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Qatar

Ritz Carlton Doha

VIP Lounge Private Jets Terminal, Hamad International Airport

Grow Design Agency, Doha

England
London - Finelot Gallery, St James’s W.1.

London - Highgate Fine Art Gallery, Highgate

London - Artbank – Clerkenwell

London - Australian High Commission, The Strand

Germany

Cologne – Osper Gallery

Beensberg - Anne Malches Gallerie