Nicolette Eisdell

Nicolette Eisdell is a Sydney-based artist whose practice spans decades, mediums and subjects.

Trained at the Julian Ashton Art School in the late 1960’s - an institution celebrated for its rigorous, traditional approach - for 20 years she worked as a freelance fashion Illustrator in Sydney and London. Subsequently, holding a Masters in Art Therapy (1996), and later a Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy, for 14 years she worked as the art therapist at a prison psychiatric hospital.

Although identifying as a figurative painter, Nicolette’s subjects range broadly, from luminous interiors to brooding landscapes and intimate psychological studies. With her focus on chiaroscuro, the interplay of light and dark, her work is imbued with a moody tonal intensity, and

the suggestion of a narrative.

Nicolette has been a finalist in several public prizes, including the Salon des Refusés, the Portia Geach Women’s Portrait Prize, and the defunct Plein Air Landscape Prize.