10 YEARS This year marked Victoria’s 10-year anniversary. “Over the years I’ve continued working as a makeup artist and wardrobe stylist and I do beauty writing on my website, but many times I’ve felt like I was going through the motions. Grief tends to dilute creative passion, I think you do what you have to do to survive,” says Nikki.
Nikki Lovrich in her studio with her painting, Veronica
FINDING ART SPACE “Then one day a friend—whose mother is an amazing artist—suggested we have an art day. So I drew one of my characteristic faces, and out of nowhere, I painted her face blue and suddenly saw great possibility. "I purchased canvases and paints and painted my first flower girl, I couldn’t stop once I started. I called her Rosalie after my friends mother. Work was quiet pre-election, so I painted the entire time. I did 10 paintings.” THE FLOWER GIRLS Nikki calls her paintings The Flower Girls as a collective and each one is named. After Rosalie came Sophie, Chloe, Veronica, Alexis, Georgette, Carmen, and Whitney. They’re vivid, vibrant, bright and colourful and inspired by Nikki’s love of the islands, vintage Hawaiian style, '70s fashion, and '80s pop art. Nikki Lovrich and her sister Veronica
“They’re the girls’ faces I’d drawn as a child but they’ve matured. My art has finally grown up." MARY LIZZIE My most popular painting (so far) is Mary-Lizzie who is named after my grandmother. She took us to Hawaii in 1975 which was the beginning of a regular pilgrimage and became our special family place—it’s the place that inspires much of my art and where I feel especially close to ‘Tor.”
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