The Blind Seer
40” x 30” Pastel on Paper
Tough Journey
40” x 30” Pastel on Paper
Descent
A profile of a nomad’s face in blue darkness with a lit yellow eye. The eye is lit by an internal light source and sees things other people can’t see in the outer world.
40” x 30” Pastel on Paper
Artist's Bio
Nicole Rubio was born in New York and graduated from the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston. She migrated to the West Coast and was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in 1978. For the next thirty years she supported herself as a secretary while wishing to be doing art. On retiring in 2010, she still had enough central vision left to start creating a body of large-scale pastel drawings. The drawings use dress as a metaphor for the unseen emotional world. In 2021 she is still drawing and unwilling to give up the art she has waited so long to do.
Email: nicole.rubio@gmail.com
