Nikki Black is an unusual artist, born in Tehran 31 years ago she moved to England in 2006, and is now an established artist in the Brighton area. Her paintings reflect the multiplicity of her dual culture. You can find the colours of life on her paintings. Sunny skies in Iran, patchwork drawings of oriental carpets, or the reflection of a silent city in a smooth sea, this is what you will find as part of her work. Nikki Black can make some happy and funny paintings but she also has a dark side in her work. Something difficult to explain; it’s obscure, brown, dark blue, or red. Geometric shapes take the whole place they create aclosed space where Nikki Black traps her characters.
There she puts animals lost in a labyrinth or houses,
cities slowly coming out the obscurity to start a new world. This painting looks very simple at first sight, but it’s not, Nikki Black has the wonderful capacity to keep her work accessible as there is something childish in the lovely colours and traits that she uses. She became passionate about painting at the age of 12, that’s when she started learning painting and drawing in a specialized school. A professional artist trained her and since then she’s been trying to find her “own language through shapes and colours to express my emotions in my unique way” says Nikki. Now she is able to make up painting patchworks of emotions and does it well. Her website is full of unique paintings, in a whole range of colours, if loneliness often appears on the paintings, it is to better enhance the unions between the places, the times of the day, and most of all, the emotions that you feel when you face your own vision of life through her eyes. Her paintings are mainly made in acrylics and most of her inspiration is taken from Persian rugs. You can see this as most of her patchworks are sewed together (with painting) as a rug. The other 
strong inspiration which justifies the shapes and colours are Mayan ruins and Indian American patterns. This justifies the warm colours of red and yellow, rectangular shapes, and endless circles of little shapes that look like a special alphabet. Nikki Black has finally found her own language, and now she invites you in her world, get ready to see the words behind the pictures.
Join Nikki Black on her website for more information or if you want to have a look at her work: www.nikki-black.com
