About
My name is Nicky Amin. In my early days in seventies London I was a volunteer director of International Arts Centre, and studios in SE1 now building was demolished . I was also artists model for Craig Aitchison and Euon Uglow at the same time. I changed career to run public houses, in the mid nineties, attended Mount View Drama school ,worked in the film and TV industry for 13 years and been a carer to my parents. I always been painting and drawing since childhood and have got no formal training of art school .Attended Citi Lit fine Art Course and Cultural Practice Personal Projects. Currently I participating with Turps banana Art School’s correspondence course for last four years.My studio for last 6 years is at Bow arts studio space at Bow.
My process is making drawings or starting drawing on the canvas and using variety of materials ,mediums, coloured tissue paper.
I am driven by Human spirituality and lust for life and compassion for all things from kindness to animals to humans. Relationships and romantic love, still exploring life. I am also gender fluid. And regularly donate to food banks.
Biography
I’m a painter from British Indian decent working within these two cultural experiences. My practice is drawing from these two cultural experiences the paintings deal with ideas and notions around physical pleasure, sexual gratification, love ,Libido is a term used in psychoanalytic theory to describe the energy created by survival and sexual instincts. According to Sigmund Freud, the libido is part of the id and is the driving force of all behaviour. Relationships feelings of excitement and attraction and intimacy “I strive to give voice to taboo subject in society an attempt to encourage thought, emotion and dialogue with impure of thoughts ,ideas and images is my reoccurring theme of infatuation in in my paintings is fantasy , spiritual and Tantra ,in Sanskrit the word Tantra means woven together, shrouded in the mysteries of one’s own intimate desires and fears enjoyment procreation and transcendence .I also work my subconscious level as work takes me ..... , my sources are taken from books, stories, movies and cultural documentaries and internet.
