About Me
Nicole Gomez juggles freelance painting and illustration while working at Deckert Financial Management as the Marketing Director and Graphic Designer. Nicole is a 2004 magna cum laude graduate from the school of the arts at Virginia Commonwealth University(Go Rams!), with an emphasis in Illustration in the Communication Arts School, and a minor in Art History. She was the President of VCU’s illustration club for two years. She also studied at the Lorenzo de' Medici School of Art in Florence, Italy and was trained through The Illustration Academy in Richmond, VA.
Nicole lives and works in Richmond, VA but often travels back to her hometown of San Antonio, Texas were she finds inspiration from the vibrant, colorful and culturally rich surroundings. Since graduation she has worked as an illustrator, painter and designer. Her work has been recognized by American Illustration and RSVP. She has displayed her work in galleries both locally and internationally including various venues in Richmond, North Carolina, and Gdansk, Poland. She is a published editorial illustrator and has worked with magazines including Richmond Magazine, The Virginia Journal of Education, The Boomer Magazine, Virginia Living and Seventeen Magazine. Other clients include The Virginia Department of Architecture, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. She is also a featured illustrator in the Contemporary Book of Illustration, page 91, by Martin Dawber.
Nicole loves watercolor and painstakingly detailed pen drawings, as well as big, bright, expressive acrylic paintings on canvas. Whatever the medium, she focuses on color and contrast to create unique works of art for her clients and the walls of her home studio. She paints or draws everyday, and has been since the age of two years old when she picked up her first paintbrush. Her favorite things to paint are trees and roosters.
When she isn’t working, she enjoys traveling at every opportunity, wine, golf courses, frolicking in the sand, scrabble, beautiful and interesting things, playing dodge ball and the company of her pets, family and friends.