JCAM, Vol. 6, No. 1
Nicholas Fowler What is your professional name? Where do you live and how does that place influence you? My name is Nicholas Fowler and I am from Laurinburg, North Carolina. Despite most of what I make being about emotions and mental issues, I am enormously inspired by the plants and animals of North Carolina. Their aesthetics and behaviors are really interesting and fun to replicate, and frankly they just feel like home. Those pieces feel more like me than the pieces directly about me. Do you have family, friends, or fellow artists who support you in your work, life and art making and how do they make a difference in your life? My family and friends are my biggest supporters in my art. It helps that I come from a family of artists. I have seen metalwork and photography my entire life, so in addition to being surrounded by it, being an artist was fully supported. Can you describe the time when you first realized that creating was something you absolutely had to do? I originally went to school for engineering, and took some art classes on the side because I needed something I enjoyed to even out everything else. I met some of the grad students in the art department there and after getting to know them, I realized that I wanted to make art more than anything else. I switched majors by the end of the year. How has your work changed or developed over time? At first my work was extremely precise and I could not do a thing without something to copy. It has slowly evolved into using my references as symbols. Now I am at the point
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