About

Nicole currently works full-time artist working animation, illustration, and concept art.

***Nicole is currently available for work and seeking BG paint/design, visual development, and illustration projects. (Full time or freelance)

Nicole enjoys traditional media paintings.  Acryla gouache is her favorite medium to work with, but also loves experimenting with pigmented and acrylic inks. Wonders of the natural world continue to be a major theme in Nicole’s artwork - illustrating everything from adventuring animals to seascape studies of the Pacific Northwest. Nicole enjoy's balancing her painting career with reading and hanging out in the garden with her partner and animal crew.

Titmouse - Background Painter for feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
April 2023 (special short term project)

Spin Master - Visual Development for unannounced preschool tv series
Nov 2022 - March 2023

Titmouse - Visual Development and Background Design for Frog & Toad TV series.
July 2021 - Oct 2022

Mondo - Freelance illustrator for Vinyl LP cover/interior artwork based on Soundtrack Movie Titles.
2016 - 2023

iam8bit - Freelance illustrator for Vinyl LP cover/interior artwork based on Video Game Titles.
2017 - 2022

Trekell Pro Team Artist - 2021

Select Gallery Exhibitions
Antler/Talon Gallery - Seattle Art Fair group exhibition - 2023
Nucleus Portland - “CLUSTER” Group Show featuring mushrooms - 2023
Archimedes Gallery 2013 - present
Nucleus Portland - Solo Exhibitions - 2018, 2019
Gallery 1988 - Solo Exhibitions “Natural History” - 2012, “Pop Terrariums” - 2015, “Once and Future Weird Kids” - 2016, “Colorful Constructs” - 2017
Gallery Nucleus - 4 Person Shows “Flora & Fauna” 2015, “Flora & Fauna II” 2017
Flatcolor Gallery - Solo Exhibition “Celestial Spaces” - 2016
iam8bit - Solo Exhibitions “Worlds Collide” - 2014, “Animal Adventurers” - 2016

Select Client List: 
Alderac | Darrinton Press | Titmouse | Hasbro/MTG | Cricket Media | Lake Coloring | iam8bit | Gallery Nucleus | Archimedes Gallery | Spoke Art | Mondo | Boom! Studios | Nickelodeon

Published in the following:
ImagineFX 184 “Artist in Residence” feature - March 2020
Animal Adventurers Coloring Book *self published
Animal Adventurers Art Book *self published
Cricket Magazine, Oct 2018: Vol 26, Number 2.
1001 Knights Anthology - Three volume anthology featuring over 250 artists
Crazy 4 Cult: Movie Art 2 with Gallery 1988
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson 2016
Spectrum 21, 22, 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
Guest illustrator in David Peterson's - Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol 3 #2
Cover Artist for Adventure Time # 47, published by KaBOOM! Studios

For general inquiries, online shop, and Illustration related projects, please contact:
nicole@nimasprout.com

For animation design related inquiries,
I am represented by:
Ellen Ann Mersereau, Esq
mersereau@earthlink.net
(323)461-3316