About the Author
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Blurbarian Since
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September 2007
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Name
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Nakisha VanderHoeven
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My Web Site
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http://www.nakisha.com
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Location
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Seattle, WA USA
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Gender
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Female
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My Occupation
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Artist
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My Bio
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I was born in California in 1969, and have been creating art since my earliest memory. I lived in San Francisco until I was ten when I moved to a tree farm in rural New York. Here I grew up surrounded by animals and nature. I graduated in 1991 from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York with a degree in sculpture and minors in Art History and Anthropology. In 1993 I moved to Seattle, Washington. Currently I work in Seattle and continue to sculpt, paint and create as well as care for my adopted animals.
Artist's Statement -
My work comes from a desire to make things. I have always been inspired to recreate what I saw and convey what I felt through images. I feel that passionate emotion is often best portrayed by things being unrealistically bent or perspective being a little skewed.
I love experimenting with color, and am attracted to objects and beautiful things, especially suggestive and functional ones. I relate to the honest emotional nature of animals and often express my
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Things I Don't Mind The World Knowing
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Spoiler alert: I'm thinking my next book will be about... |
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My drawing and sketchbooks. |
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