Nicola's passion as an artist is to tell human stories.  Her goal is to understand and reveal the essence of these stories from the inside out.  Whether Nicola is painting a personal portrait in oils, taking photographs or creating a cycle of silkscreen prints telling a wider social story, such  as  In Seven Days... she focuses on the detail to reveal the whole. Her work is not about recording images at one moment in time.  Through a rigorous process of research and experimentation, she seeks to reveal the story outside the frame as well as distilling her experiences to capture the essence of the subject.  Nicola’s background is rooted in a classical training as well as a contemporary context. The process and execution of her work is integral to her practice, inviting an exploration of the circumstances of the story as well as it’s making.