Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2017 | Page 291
Nico Thomas
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Artist, Grenada
As an emerging artist, I believe that art is a replication of the inner soul
and the reality of being able to reproduce that inner soul is the essence of
a peaceful and calm human being. This relationship I believe, is also the
essence to the maintenance of a harmonized world.
Having proven to be talented in the field of art and having a profound
interest and desire to make a contribution in that field, I was appointed
art teacher of Grenada’s St. David’s Catholic Secondary School in 2007. My
insatiable appetite to express myself through art could not be contained
so I began to seek opportunities to further develop myself in this field. An
opportunity presented itself in 2010. I was the sole Grenadian recipient of
a one year academic scholarship to Indonesia. After completing the one
year non- degree art program, I then enrolled as a full degree student at
the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Padang Panjang where I completed a
Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts. In 2014 I entered the Masters Degree Program
of Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Two years later under the
guidance of Dr. M. Dwi Marianto, MFA, I graduated with a Masters Degree in
Creative Art and Art Research.
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