BIOGRAPHY

Nicole Eve Quinn was born in 1978 in Oakville, Canada. She is of Irish and French Métis heritage. She was raised in Winnipeg, California, and Vancouver where she now resides. She is fortunate to have a creative lineage. Her father is an entrepreneur and composer. Her mother is also an entrepreneur, very accomplished with crafts, and a passion for renovating and decorating.

Both her grandfathers are highly recognized in their fields of endeavor, and her grandmothers are accomplished and creative. Nicole’s paternal grandparents’ home has been a base of stability in her life, as well as a home filled with artistic treasures that have deeply moved and influenced her. Nicole is particularly inspired by those created by the late, great Canadian artist Gerald Gladstone, who was her grandfather’s best friend.

Nicole is also a talented dancer, starting with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet school at the age of 4. She has transformed her creative dance energies to the many mediums of fine arts.

BIOGRAPHY

She has studied fine arts at Langara College and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and is accredited with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She has a strong passion for Home Renovation and Interior painting, and has worked with Benjamin Moore being a Colour consultant as well as Decorative paint advisor. She also has some interior design and faux finishing schooling to add to her unique expertise.

She is inspired mostly by organic materials, whether it be nature, the human body, or parts of old age architecture. Some of her paintings, the more textural vibrant ones, or her later ones have been inspired by aged architecture in Havana Cuba and Venice Italy. She has enjoyed taking microscopic portions of these paintings and blowing them up so they are abstract, not definitive of anything, open to interpretation.

Nicole has no limitations to what she does, and enjoys new projects that open up new doors of creative possibility.