Nancy Nicol

I am a New Yorker at heart. I commuted daily for eleven years from my home in Jersey City to attended Friends Seminary, 16th Street and Rutherford Place, where art and shop were as vital to our studies as comparative religion and current events.  By 4th Grade I was navigating in and out of the city without adult supervision, meeting up with classmates and filling my pockets with found objects. I collected rusty metal. I admired street art and graffiti, absorbed by the dioramas at the Museum of Natural History. I sketched New Guinea and Inuit tribal pieces on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was inspired at the MOMA and the Guggenheim. These youthful expeditions continue to impact the way I experiment with materials and make stuff today.

I always wanted to be an artist and started oil painting when I was eight years old. As an only child, I learned early on to occupy myself with pretending, sketching, writing, and painting. Later, single with children, I balanced my world as a painter and as a therapist.

BA summa cum laude in Art Education, Jersey City State College

MA Special Education full fellowship, Jersey City State College

Ed.M. Counseling and Consulting Psychology, Harvard Grad. School of Education.

I taught art in inner-city after school programs and rural public High Schools. I have been involved in community action, Chapter 766, and advocacy groups including Youth at Risk. For me, what’s most important - pay attention, tell the truth, remember time is everything.

My primary residence is Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and I have an additional studio/home gallery in Dresden Maine. I am represented by ARTNOVA Gallery in Chatham and show in juried, invitational, and local open calls. I am affiliated with Maine Art Gallery, in Wiscasset and Provincetown Art Gallery and Museum on Cape Cod. At one time I owned Gallery 5, in Wellfleet and have been included in numerous juried and invitational shows at Viridian. I am proud to be a Viridian Affiliate, work shown here includes Detritus, Assemblage, Monster/Superheroes, and Abstract Cartography.

I am a published author in two personal narrative anthologies at Telling Our Stories Press – Roll in 2012 and Reflections in 2015 and self-published a family history An Awful Providence, Epidemic Typhus and Family History in 2019. I illustrated two books written by Jim Maguire, MD, Quiet Places and Why?  One of my prints was included in Affiliate Member Sarah Riley’s Practical Mixed Media Printmaking Techniques, A&C Black, 2012.

My online shop, launched in 2020 as NancyNicolArt has several Collections - Crows, Just Oysters, Sea Life - and most recently Canvas Prints. As well as being an entrepreneur and working artist, I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice.