Clockwork Oregano Art

28, Artist, Writer, Dreamer, whatever I am.

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Alchemy

I have seen a lot of fools gold, but I have also seen a lot of beauty created out of something that wasn't presumed to be as valuable as gold.

Materials: Mixed Media on Canvas Dimensions: 12″ x 16″ (30.5×40.6cm) Date: 19-01-2025 Purchase: Coming Soon Description: A blue background with a golden anatomically correct heart. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston. All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the artist Available for purchase: Coming Soon About this piece: This…

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Shadow & Light

The first week of December, I ended up being rushed to Emergency with Hyponatremia, with no indication of what was causing the condition. The entire stay at the hospital was like a fever dream or nightmare scape. The concept for this painting prepared me.

Materials: Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: 18″ x 24″ (45.7cmx61cm) Date: 11-01-2025 Purchase: Coming Soon Description: An armored figure kneels in a stone built room arms uplifted to an angel holding out a sword while a cloaked shadow figure lurks in the background holding a knife. Behind the figure lay the remains of a bloody wing. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole…

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Paving the Way

Inspired by the notion of "paving the way", this painting is a depiction of a person walking forward with passion lighting flames under their feet as they proceed forward on a path, perhaps leading others.

Materials: Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: 11″ x 8″ (28cmx20cm) Date: 30-03-2024 Purchase: Here Description: A grey-blue background with heeled feet walking into a distance leaving flamed footprints. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston. All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the artist Available for purchase: Here About this…

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Trail Blazer

NEWS: I now have artwork available for sale internationally on Etsy - link on posts. This piece was inspired by the idea of the road less traveled or walking with passion towards a distant light.

Materials: Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: 8″ x 11″ (20cm x28cm) Date: 30-03-2024 Purchase: Here Description: This painting features a figure in nude walking through a snow covered terrain amongst the shadows of trees with fire under their feet and a path of flamed footprints behind. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston. All copyright and reproduction rights to the…

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Dead in Alive - A short Story

The inspiration for this short story came from the idea of writing the story that didn't have a happy, inspiring ending. Even after all these years, I still feel a sting that comes from considering how close I have come and how value is attributed.

TW – Trigger Warning Topics include reference to substance abuse, self-harm, suicide. Foreword Written in grade 7 or 8 (and consecutively submitted for English assignments year after year due to moving schools, only to receive the same grade each year which confirmed a suspicion I had about the way grading for such courses worked). This short story was never graded differently – I received the…

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Lady in Red

Step into a realm of mysticism with "Lady in Red," a captivating piece that merges ancient symbolism with ethereal beauty. It speaks to the soul of the viewer, inviting them to explore the boundaries of imagination and belief through Celtic and Norse Myth

Materials: Mixed Media on Canvas Dimensions: 16″ x 20″ (40.6cm x50.8cm) Date: 23-11-2024 Description: A figure draped in a flowing red cloak with a celestial double ring crown adorned by feathers, reaches a blue arm up while behind a golden caim appears. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston (Nika). All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully…

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[aditiv3rse]

we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Mary Kate Teske

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Vulnerability

Materials: Pencil and Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: 8″ x 10″ (20.3cm x25,4cm) Date: 11-11-2020 Original: CAD$100 Description: Figure head of medusa with snakes for hair with paint blinding her eyes. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston (Nika). All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the artist Available in: 11″ x 14″ Giclee…

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[thehereticpharaoh]

This is what hieroglyphs and figures in ancient Egyptian temples looked like before their colors faded. They were recreated using a polychromatic light display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following thorough research.

[ms-hells-bells]

If this is your kind of thing, new zealand has the world's first life sized re-creation of an Egyptian temple for an idea of how it would have looked back then

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For those who want to know where in New Zealand it is, this is in Hamilton Gardens in Hamilton!

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Pinned Down

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Materials: Watercolor on Paper Dimensions: 11″ x 11″ (28cm x28cm) Date: 09-04-2024 Original: CAD$100 Stretched canvas over a human form that flows into a frame, with knives stabbed through the hands pinning the canvas into place. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston (Nika). All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the artist Available…

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[arylleth]

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

[selkielore]

negative space

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rick bursky / the man with a hole in his head

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Splat

This is my mind splattered on canvas. Not because I needed to. Because I wanted to. Part of a three-piece series exploring “mind, heart, and soul”, this piece represents the mind expressed on the canvas by an artist. The bold expression of ‘Splat’, a striking abstract piece with thick, textured red paint spilling out of an ornate,…

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Eclipse 2024

"Once every 365 earth days, the moon and sun would meet again and cross each other’s path, to remind the galaxy of what once was the love that rarely matched" Bella D'Alacio, Forbidden Cosmos

Materials: Acrylic on paper. Dimensions: 11″ x 14″ (28×35.7cm) Date: 09-04-2024 Original: $300 Description: Skyscape background with a solar eclipse peaking out through the trees and a nude shadowed woman in the foreground. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston (Nika). All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the artist Available…

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Honey

"This is the honey & doesn’t it taste like a promise? Where your heart is an accordion & our laughter is a soundtrack" - Mahogany L. Browne

Materials: Acrylic on canvas board. Dimensions: 12″ x 16″ (30.5×15.2cm) Date: 25-07-2024 Original: $200 Blue background with a pink abstract back body dripping with gold. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston (Nika). All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the artist Available in: 11″ x 14″ Giclee Print 8.5″ x 11″ Giclee Print 8.5″…

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Recital

Within the layers of sheet music and paint, some surprises await. Be it via symbolism or secrets painted into the canvas, visible or not, from beginning to end, is part of the story my paintings contain. Magic hidden in plain sight.

Materials: Mixed Media on canvas. Dimensions: 18″ x 24″ (45.7x61cm) Date: 27-09-2024 Original: $1,300 Ballet dancer with brown hair viewed from a back angle as she moves forward with sheet music and gold textured pallet knife application. This is an original, authentic work created by Nicole Livingston (Nika). All copyright and reproduction rights to the artwork remain fully with the…

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