I’m Nicole – artist and sole owner of NB Abstract Designs! The ride that has led me to create this little home-based art business of mine has been quite the adventure.

I was born and raised in Saskatoon, SK. I’ve always been a quirky weirdo who absolutely loves connection and conversation! I love to get to know people on a deep level—which has led me to travel throughout Central America and Africa. Travel has opened me up to so much of my intuitive nature and is what ultimately lead me to art. The most incredible aspects of my travels have always been getting to know the local artists from each community and seeing how their life has led them to art. What always intrigued me the most, though, was that each of my favorite artists had some sort of traumatic background.

Thinking a little more on this, I realized art has helped me process so much of my own traumatic past. Art has always been a therapeutic process for me—but I hadn’t really ever connected how the process of how creating helps me express those traumas in a healthy way. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with C-PTSD in 2020 that I realized I truly wanted to help others see the value creativity and art has to offer to heal and repurpose old wounds. This realization is what inspired me to go back to university at 27 years old. My goal is to become a Clinical Art Therapist. I plan to specialize in trauma processing for individuals with PTSD and generational trauma. My artistic side has, in the past, always taken the back burner to some of what I thought were the most important aspects of my life. But now I realize that I can have a career where I can combine the artistic side of me with the connection-craving side. Over the past few years, I’ve really learned what it means to become genuine to oneself and how making conscious choices can have such a positive impact in the overall outcome of life.

Each product that I create is made with so much love and warmth. Thank you so much for the support! Each purchase helps make my vision become a reality.

Please send me an e-mail regarding networking or wholesale orders!