Nick Maric is a Serbian born photographer and digital artist based in Chicago. His work explores light, color, atmosphere, and the quiet geometry of the natural world.

His practice begins with careful observation. Maric turns his lens toward intimate details of nature: water lilies on still water, wildflowers, forest paths, and the shifting light of woodlands and valleys. He transforms these original photographs through a meticulous multistep digital process of layering, blending, and refining color, texture, and light. The resulting works bridge photography and painterly expression, evoking the depth and tactile presence of traditional painting while preserving the essential character of their photographic source.

Alongside his nature based work, Maric explores urban architecture, particularly Chicago’s distinctive geometry, vertical rhythms, and interplay of steel and light. Across both bodies of work, he is drawn to balance, restrained composition, textural depth, and the moment when observation becomes reinterpretation.

Maric’s work is available through Singulart and Saatchi Art as signed, numbered archival limited editions.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My work begins with looking. I photograph what is quiet and easily overlooked a water lily resting on dark water, light moving through a grove of pines, the soft geometry of a valley, or the rhythm of an urban facade at dusk. I am interested in the moment when a scene stops being a simple record and becomes a feeling: a sense of balance, stillness, or tension held just beneath the surface.

From these photographs, I build layered digital works, gradually refining color, texture, and light until the image carries the depth and tactile presence of a painting while retaining the essence of what I originally observed. I never want to lose the photograph; I want to reveal what was already inside it.

Nature is the center of my practice. The city is its counterpoint an order shaped by human hands rather than by weather and time. Between the two, I look for the same things: restraint, light, quiet geometry, and a composition that lets the viewer breathe.