Nicole White Kennedy
Signature Member the American Impressionist Society
“I cannot remember when I didn’t draw. My formative years were spent doodling in the margins. Having grown up around (and married) restaurateurs, I am by nature drawn to drama, storytelling and have acquired a lifelong habit of people watching. Which explains why I am particularly enamored with street scenes, beach people, figures in an environment, subjects with a narrative flair. Having said that, there really isn’t any subject that I don’t love to paint, it could be a plein air scenic day at the coast, a farm, a still life or a large boat scene. I continue to challenge myself using primarily oils. My journey focuses on the pursuit of excellence, raising the bar after each painting, creating a never ending creative and technical challenge each time I step up to the blank canvas." Nicole
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Nicole White Kennedy is well known nationally for her iconic Italian, coastal and beach people figures for which she has won numerous awards. Nicole owned Nicole’s Studio & Art Gallery for over 18 years where she exhibited many artists, changing the art scene in North Carolina by hosting world class art workshops with renowned painters throughout the US. Nicole sold the gallery in 2019 to paint full time & instruct art workshops from Raleigh to Tuscany!
ACCOLADES: Nicole is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society. Juried into numerous national shows winning prestigious awards for her artwork at AIS (American Impressionist Society numerous times), Oil Painters of America (salon and numerous regional) WPSE (Women Painters of the Southeast) National Oil/Acrylic Painters and Oil Painters of America Regional Juried exhibits, American Allied Artists Society, Audubon Artists National exhibit at Salmagundi Club NYC. Additionally Nicole has been juried into many regional NC exhibit building her career winning 1st place awards at Fine arts league of Cary, Durham Art Guild, Annual art juried art exhibit at NC State fair.
PUBLISHED CREDITS -
Cover Feature & interview Wakefield Living Magazine, featured artist & interview Wrightsville Beach Magazine in 2014, 2017, 2020. Featured in national publications: Fine Arts Connoisseur, Artists & Galleries of the South Magazine, American Art Collector and locally: News & Observer and many regional NC publications including Southern Living
1996 –present Nicole Kennedy moved to Raleigh in 1996 to open Caffé Luna with her husband, Parker. She established Nicole’s Studio & Art Gallery from 2001- 2019. Please visit www.nicolestudio.com or contact nicole@nicolestudio.com for questions on art, workshop schedules and commissions.
Over the past few years Nicole has had the opportunity to continue her art education with nationally acclaimed artists/instructors:Robert Liberace, Dawn Whitelawlaw, Kim English, Quang Ho, John Poon, Lori Putnam, Gregg Kruetz, Stephen Early, Rick McClure, David Dunlop, Perry Austin amongst others.