Hi there,
I'm Nicola —a mother and physiotherapist—but those are only part of my story.
If you've found your way here, it's likely my digital art has captured your attention.
My work explores the beauty and unpredictability of movement. Fluid forms blend, collide, swirl, and shatter, creating moments of tension, harmony, and transformation. Each piece invites you to pause, look a little closer, and discover your own meaning within the layers of colour, motion, and light.
Art has a remarkable way of speaking without words. It can calm, captivate, challenge, or awaken a memory we didn't know we were holding. Rather than telling you what to see, I hope my work gives you space to simply feel.
Behind every collection is a story—one shaped by curiosity, creativity, and a fascination with the patterns and forces that connect us all.
I'd love to share that story with you. Welcome.
My Story
My journey into video art began at the end of my Fine Art degree in 2005. I was exploring the age-old medium of paint and their interactions with ink and solvents in their fluid state – and in an instant I felt as though I had “stumbled” upon something truly unique.
As I watched these unbelievable images moving, flowing and changing right before my eyes, in real time, I knew I had to capture these ephemeral moments in video format.
I started pouring paint onto cellophane using an old HD video camera to capture this moment filming at perpendicular angles. I then progressed to using petri dishes and syringes for a more controlled and precise application. At my final graduate show I projected the videos onto walls and made DVDs to play on TV’s.
Simultaneously I felt like a fraud. I have the audio to prove it! I felt as though it was an accident, a stroke of luck, that this isn’t art but a mere fluke. This feeling as though I was an imposter lingered and filtered into many other aspects of my world. Hence my name - The Imposters Studio.
At the end of 2006 my whole world changed. I was nearing the end of my Graduate Diploma in teaching when my older sister, Kate, suicided.
I felt like I was underwater and everything around me was in slow motion. She had suffered for a long time with mental health problems and substance abuse. From that point forward my whole trajectory shifted.
In 2008 I embarked on my second degree to become a Physiotherapist. I wanted to help people and “contribute” to society. I started work in 2012 at SCGH and every patient I saw I wanted to save and help. I truly love being a physiotherapist and a creative at the same time.
Twenty years later, I have found myself wholeheartedly reunited with this artistic practice.
While technology has evolved dramatically, my process remains true to how it has always been. Today, I am able to capture every movement with remarkable clarity, revealing intricate details and fleeting moments that were once impossible to preserve.
Every video is filmed in real time, using only the natural movement of liquid. There are no filters, no digital manipulation, and no artificial effects—just the raw beauty of paint in motion.
For me, these works are paintings in their purest, most abstract form. They exist in the space between science and art, where colour, gravity, viscosity, and chance come together to create something that can never be repeated in exactly the same way.
My videos explores paint and the way that these chemicals and substances mimic nature on micro, macro and mega scales. These universal properties of liquids and their interactions/reactions to each other is of divine design.
I am mesmerised by our Australian landscapes and colours of the outback. Having previously only worked in black and white, this is uncharted and exciting new territory for me.
With a renewed perspective, I have come to realise that art can be a powerful form of healing—not only for me, but for those who experience it.
Nicola