Each small piece is intimate and inviting. Moss has followed her imagination into her soul and shares them with us in a quiet, moving way. These are pieces of art which achieve the purpose of art. The paintings stand alone as objects, not representations of other things, and they involve the viewer. Color and the imagination combine with numerous archetypal symbols that are honest, approachable and inviting.
Speculation naturally occurs.
Her pieces depict lovers, mermaids, and flower-gatherers, and within the surfaces of the paintings are fish, clouds, stars, moons, suns, palm trees, houses, buildings , windows, and doors. You also meet a magical dog, Ipo, who personifies the troubled and self-immersed ego, always honestly searching for answers and making the viewer want to belly laugh. Nikki Moss is an artist who has rendered the references of art history and the technical uses of her materials into an honest, mature style. Marc Chagall is a painter whom she obviously admires for his dreamlike qualities, his use of blues and reds, and his subject matter of brides, lovers, horses and angels. Moss refers to Chagall rather than borrowing from his work.