Visual artist Nicci Sevier-Vuyk Follow.Art Card

About me

I'm a contemporary American artist creating acrylic floral portraits that challenge conventional notions of beauty. My work celebrates the wild and asymmetrical in nature; flowers that refuse to behave, petals that twist in unexpected directions, forms that won't conform to symmetry.

Growing up, I learned my appearance was perhaps my most important aspect. I knew it wasn't, but knowing didn't change the cultural reality. My art grew from that tension.

I seek out flowers with asymmetrical forms and paint them against minimal backgrounds, using color and form to strip away decorative context. By focusing entirely on movement and personality, each painting becomes a portrait; a study of an individual with presence. When viewers pause and really see these flowers as beings that refuse to conform, that's the moment I'm after. The recognition that beauty lives in the rebellion, not the perfection.

My practice is informed by a lifelong relationship with painting and a parallel career as a pediatric nurse practitioner, where observation, care, and attentiveness to nuance have been central. Although I studied at The Glassell School of Art in Houston, I'm primarily self-taught, forging an intuitive and independent artistic path.
I've held four solo exhibitions and have been included in numerous juried shows. My work was recently added to the Fidelity Investment Corporate Art Collection (2023).
Born in Northern California, I now live and work in Katy, Texas, where I continue creating paintings that invite slow looking and challenge how we define beauty and value.