Hidden Treasure, 2023

Nicole Schlegel Art  

Nicole Schlegel was born into an artistic family of poets, musicians, painters and woodcarvers.

Nicole's curiosity leads her to explore and experiment. She constantly asks question, learning new methods along the way.

She appreciates the support of her daughters, an artist and an architect, who always show her a new, deep and diverse view of her work.

Nicole studied jazz in New York: guitar, piano, vocals and improvisation. It was a ver intense and enriching time, both musically and artistically. Paintings were found on the sheets of the lyrics she wrote. Eventually, however, the trees in Central Park were no longer enough for her and Nicole returned to Switzerland.

Keys, bits and bytes

Nicole's work in a recording studio coincided with the exciting time when analogue was being replaced by digital. Her interest in technology was aroused. At a new computer-based company, she worked in IT, tuning machines, teaching and taking responsibility for trading companies and their technical installations and infrastructure, where she learned programming and a lot about systems engineering. Nicole got into the depths of bits and bytes. 

One evening everything changed

On the way home in a car, the driver caused an accident. He drove into a tree.

Nicole then spent 7 years healing through meditation, self-healing, as well as doctors and therapists appointments, Once able to socialize again, she traveled, seeking inspiration. To heal herself as much as offer healing to others, Nicole recorded an album of relaxing and meditative music in Glastonbury, England. She held workshops on the effects of music, frequencies and colors in England, Finland and Switzerland. 

For Nicole, it is essential to share and receive knowledge at every opportunity, to create with the purpose of helping others feel good, to evoke well-being, joy and to invoke strength to exist plentifully in this world. 

In January 2022, after 20 years of focusing on painting, Nicole decided to go public with her paintings.

Since then her paintings have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Milan, Madrid, Monaco, Zurich and will be in  the Maya Museum in Cancun. Her work has appeared in the book "Artist's of Today and Tomorrow" and won 2 awards, one in Washington DC and one in Florence.