Nicole Cameron is a Bay Area based practicing artist and teacher. Although she is a natural crafter and maker she is most noteworthy for the vast collection of vibrantly colored paintings that bring love of place and the natural creatures of this world into painterly existence. Born in Sacramento, California Nicole has been a practicing artist based in and around the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years and currently resides in Marin county. . Nicole graduated from SFSU with a BA in Art with emphasis in Painting and Art Education. She later earned a Single Subject Teaching Credential, Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Museum Studies Certificate, and an MA in Art Education from Boston University. Along with creating art Nicole has taught art for 18 years to many different ages and currently is an elementary school art teacher in Marin County (known to her students as Ms. D.). Nicole has a vast exhibition history that spans from 2002 to 2018. Nicole considers teaching art another art form in which sharing skills, techniques, and empowerment through self-expression is vital for the human experience. Showing her audience how she views the world in a myriad of shapes and color is a passion she hopes the viewer will take away.