Interview Nadine Touré: “I incorporate my deepest emotions into my art”

“I make abstract works in which I like to play with many different colours. I give each work of art its own story, in which colours and shapes fulfill a symbolic function. I process my deepest emotions in my art. I didn't go to art school, I taught myself everything. Since a young age I have had a passion and inner urge to paint, and I put things on the canvas that can never be easily identified as existing objects. This is something I kept doing because I still feel good about it.

It's nice to draw nature in such a way that you look at it with different eyes. By continuing to paint, reading books and visiting museums, I learned everything myself and that is how my art career has developed. I also make and write music and sing jazz. When I hear music, I see colours and vice versa. To me this all feels like one whole, which is why I make little distinction between the way I approach the two media.

In the group exhibition in Y2 that I participated in, I presented a mix of old and new work. The new work mainly focused on miracles and the environment. For my exhibition in Forma Aktua I made new work that deals with emotions and nature.”