Advising and Investing in Transformative Leaders
Advising and Investing in Transformative Leaders
Colored pencil on paper. 19h x 24w in.
Nicole Appel is an exceptional artist with autism. This drawing was exhibited at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair in January, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. Nicole's Patchwork Portraits were first exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair in 2013; 2020 will be her 8th year at the Fair. Her work is represented in important collections internationally. Please read this terrific article highlighting some of her other work.
In May 2019, two years after Nicole completed her epic 192 mile “Coast to Coast” walk, she returned to the United Kingdom. This time, it was to an area in south central England known as the Cotswolds. While there were enough long, cold, and wet, “march or die” days in 2017 to make make the “Coast to Coast” seem, occasionally, like an excursion in Purgatory, the Cotswolds were an entirely different story. Rolling green hills, carpeted with yellow buttercups, bluebells, and newly born white lambs made the Cotswolds seem more like the Promised Land. The distances walked each day were downright civilized. And the villages with their homes, shops, and medieval churches and inns, built out of golden colored limestone, were like something out of a proverbial children’s story book.
Nicole saw “The Taming of the Shrew", at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, explored the “outdoor rooms” of Hidcote gardens, and attended a performance of Bach and Vivaldi at the medieval Church of St. James, in the quaint village of Chipping Campd
Her drawing, Cotswolds Rambles, commemorates these halcyon days. Once again, Nicole faithfully recorded in her diary, the names of all the people, dogs, and horses that she met along the way; many of them can be found along the drawing’s perimeter