Beachy Painting

NICOLE BATSON is a self-taught visual artist born and raised in Canada. She has always had an interest in art and design. She has a ton of appreciation for island life and uses her experience living in Barbados to influence her art with its vibrant natural colours, painting a variety of subjects with acrylics consistently since 2013. Beginning with some abstracts and trees of life and then transitioning into beautiful island flora and fauna, tropical landscapes and detailed sea turtles. Nicole has endeavoured in many projects and designs, working mostly in acrylics but has also used oils, watercolours, pencil, alcohol inks, textiles, paper-craft and air-dry clay. She has a lifestyle collection of stationery and accessories that are centred around her paintings. She started this collection because she believes art can be both functional and accessible to all. Nicole has commissioned over 50 original paintings across the globe. She has also illustrated a few children's books and has taught sip and paint classes.