There is a painstaking aspect to the way Nicole makes a painting, her pictures are built as much as they are painted.  They are so well built , so beautiful and elaborate, her audience continues to grow in tandem with her deep relationship to painting, especially Modern Expressive Abstraction. The paintings of Nicole Katsuras are uniquely innovative, one of the early pioneers of a technique that involves mixing oil paint into a personal palette of colours, then using an improvised system of irregular mark-making tools to apply the paint onto the surface of the canvas.