As an artist and a writer, I am always looking for the story. I step up to the easel and work intuitively with colors, shapes, and textures, and with time and patience and luck, a story begins to unfold on the canvas. My hope is that, somewhere between the obvious and the hidden, viewers will be enticed to create their own stories.

RECENT JURIED SHOWS

• July, 2009, Seeing Red, Visual Art Exchange; Aly Khalifa, Juror, Owner, Product and Engineering Director of Gamil Design and Founding Member of Designbox
• May, 2009, Fine Arts League of Cary, 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition; F. Lennox Campello, Juror, Artist and Art Critic
• May, 2009, Merit Award, 52nd National Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Mount Arts Center; Anne Lemanski, Juror, Sculptor and Writer
• May, 2009, Unfettered, Visual Art Exchange; Mario Gallucci, Juror, Curatorial Assistant, Greenhill Center for NC Art in Greensboro
• March, 2009, Honorable Mention,The Artist's Magazine's All-Media Online Competition
• February, 2009, Featured Artist in Front Gallery, Visual Art Exchange
• October, 2008, North Carolina State Fair, Professional Category
• October, 2008, 18th Annual Works of Heart Juried Live Auction; John Acorn, Juror, former Chairman of the Art Department, Clemson University; Xandra Eden, Juror, Curator at Weatherspoon Art Museum; Tom Grubb, Juror, Executive Director of the Fayetteville Museum of Art
• July, 2008, Microcosmos, Visual Art Exchange; Robin Greene, Juror, Poet & Professor of Writing, Methodist University
• April, 2008, Fine Arts League of Cary, 14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition; Gina Cavallo Collins, Juror, Coordinator of Statewide Exhibitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
• January, 2008, RE: No Subject, Visual Art Exchange; Bill Thelen, Juror, Director of Lump Gallery & Projects
• October, 2007, North Carolina State Fair, Professional Category

OTHER SHOWS

• March, 2009, Western Wake Artists Studio Tour
• February, 2009, Western Wake Artists Studio Tour Exhibit, Cary Town Hall
• January, 2009, Ladies Night Out Little Black Dress Exhibit, Fayetteville Museum of Art
• February, 2008, Tales I Have Known, Visual Art Exchange

REPRESENTATION:

Nicole's Studio & Art Gallery
715 N. Person Street
Raleigh, N.C. 27604
(919) 838-8580
nicolesstudio@bellsouth.net

BIOGRAPHY

2008 Intensive Studies Seminar, Taos, New Mexico, with:
Fran Larsen
Alex Powers
Skip Lawrence
Katherine Chang Liu
Christopher Schink

Fall, 2007, Spring, 2008, and Spring, 2009, Art critique workshops with Ben Williams

Other workshops:
Mary Todd Beam
Carrie Burns Brown
Robert Burridge
Robert & Kate Burridge
Bob Rankin
Marilyn Hughey Phillis
Nancy Marple
Katherine Chang Liu

University of North Carolina at Asheville, BA, Cum Laude