About the Artist

Nicolette Toussaint

Nicolette Toussaint is a painterly realist who works in oils, watercolor, drawing media and glass. You can download Nicolette’s resume here. She now lives in Longmont, Colorado.

A Colorado native, Toussaint’s frequent subjects include wildlife, animals, and Rocky Mountain scenes.
Toussaint holds a Masters in Design, a minor in art history, and also Bachelor’s degrees in English and Journalism.

Among the artists she counts as having influenced her are Colorado artists Stephen Quiller and Santa Fe Indian School artists Allan Houser and Quincy Tahoma. She also credits Japanese Ukiyo-e printmakers Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai with influencing her work.

Gallery owners and fans have likened her work to that of Peter Hurd and Frank Mechau, western artists whose subjects, like mine, were intimately bound up with a sense of place.

Nicolette is a retired newspaper columnist and magazine editor. (Most of her columns are reprinted in the blog section of this website.)

Nicolette is a signature (juried in) member of the Western Colorado Watercolor Society. Her work has been shown in the Colorado State Capitol and widely exhibited in the Roaring Fork Valley, including at Carbondale’s Third Street Center, the Aspen Chapel Gallery and the R2 Gallery of Carbondale Arts at the Launchpad.