Nicole Delesalle

Nicole Delesalle was born and raised in Vancouver, BC. The daughter of an architect and painter, she was exposed to the arts from an early age and has always practiced and pursued the arts in various mediums. After studying fine arts and philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Delesalle honed her craft and gained new ways of thinking by studying the expressionist and cubist abstract movements.

She attributes her early interest in abstract expressionism to her studies of artists including Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline, among others. Delesalle creates works that portray the underlying messages of her subconscious mind, free from influences and conformity, akin to that which can only be found in the most native state of the mind’s eye.

Always having a passion for creative endeavors, Delesalle completed a successful 12 year career in Real Estate Marketing Management with one of Western Canada’s top Real Estate Development firms, Polygon Homes Ltd. While there, she completed UBC’s Graduate program in Urban Land Economics.

A fall into love changed Delesalle’s life path and brought her to Santa Barbara, California, where she currently resides and works from her home studio. Now happily married and raising three children, Delesalle is able to pursue a painting career as her primary profession and ultimate passion project.

Website: https://nicoledelesalle.com

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New Life, 2021 1

2021

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on canvas

20” x 20”

$850

"New Life" depicts the underlying process of a painting. The many layers that came before "New Life" create physical dimension and meaning hidden behind the finished piece. The large "delta" shape symbolizes change through progression and purpose. Constantly taking on a new appearance, a rebirth is extracted and new beauty is born through the many acrylic layers finished with oil pastel and pencil markings.

C SCRIPT #2

2022

This painting by Delesalle is a series of markings inspired by Picasso's cubist movement. Experimenting with extreme cubist shapes to create a new and original cubist language or "scripture"...hidden in the symbols are angled faces, hands and other body parts. The x on the eyes in the faces symbolizes the death of old cubism where curved details and more human qualities were at the foundation.

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on Canvas.

42” x 33”

$3,250

OLD WORLD

2022

“Old World” is an abstracted representation of a former way of life being replaced with a new more experimental existence - this is portrayed by suggestions of structure intermixed with more spontaneous and gestural markings representing a new emergence. Delesalle uses her preferred palette in acrylic paint layered with pencil, oil pastel and marker on stretched canvas.

Acrylic, Pencil, Oil Pastel + Marker on Canvas.

24” x 30”

$1,750

SOUL FIGHTERS

2022

“Soul Fighters” depicts a battle of two animalistic characters shown by the artist’s abstracted brush strokes intermixed with Oil Pastel and paint marker. We see two large beings come face to face with conflicted expressions, ready for battle. Delesalle sees this as a representation of the inner turmoil or conflict experienced by opposing corners of the human mind when faced with moral, impactful or life changing decisions.

Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Pencil + Marker on Canvas.

64” x 53”

$5,850

series of shapes and markings in acrylic, oil pastel and pencil

UNFLOWERED

2022

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on Canvas.

24" x 24"

$750

Unmapped Territories by Nicole Delesalle

Unmapped Territories, 2020 1

2020

Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Pencil and Marker on canvas

31.25” x 25.25”

$1,750

Lost Light, 2021

2021

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on canvas

41.25” x 41.25”

$3,950

In "Lost Light" Delesalle uses spontaneous gestural markings with acrylic, oil pastel and pencil to reflect the artists inner subconscious state during a lost and darkened time. Hope and light are interjected with brush-strokes emulating a lightness suggesting an imminent end to the dark period.

Beach Expression, 2020

2020

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on canvas

36” x 40”

$3,650

"Beach Expression" is an abstracted expression of the Santa Barbara beach experience. Underlying bright colors reference bright beach umbrellas, towels and sunsets, complemented by gestural brushstrokes in colors of white and sand. Pencil markings are added to create dimension, detail and are part of the artist's identifying technique.

Hazy Days, 2021

2021

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on canvas

36" x 48"

$4,350

"Hazy Days" uses fog colored paint layered over pencil markings to evoke a "haze" or "cloud" hanging over life during the pandemic years of 2020/2021. Delesalle created this piece as a memory of a somewhat diluted daily life, but one that should be remembered and hopefully viewed with positivity and seen here as beautiful when one considers the benefits gained by inner family focus and a slower, simpler life.

United Colors, 2021

2021

Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Pencil on canvas

36" x 48"

$4,250

In "United Colors" Delesalle uses a multitude of colors blended together as a nod to United Colors of Benetton ad campaigns from the 1980s, where Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani launched a series of ads that were designed to be explicit celebrations of diversity and inclusivity. Delesalle felt that this message was important to portray in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd Protests.