Current Works

Each work begins as a gesture that becomes layered, shaped, and transformed through the repetitive process of painting and dying fiber, before folding and weaving each cloth into a painterly brushstroke. The resulting forms balance restraint and release, exploring how cheesecloth, a common household material can hold emotion and examine the body, nature, and transformation through fiber and form. View each series overview below or request pricing, additional details or exhibition inquiries here. 

Forms of Care Sculptures

Sculptural studies of the body as vessel, caretaker, and resilient landscape. This series of soft cheesecloth sculptures explore the use of seriality in color and form as an expression of holding emotion, inherited patterns, rest, self sufficiency, and the quiet language of maternal protection.

soft cheesecloth sculpture of mother holding baby by margaret nicoll

Mother & Baby, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
26" x 24" x 24"

A colorful seated woman leaning over her crossed legs, textured cheesecloth stacked with the yellow at the bottom, pink in the middle, and blue on top.

Weeping Woman No. 1, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
38" x 36" x 24"

A colorful seated woman leaning over her crossed legs, textured cheesecloth stacked with the yellow at the bottom, pink in the middle, and blue on top.

Weeping Woman No. 2, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
28" x 28" x 22"

A colorful seated woman leaning over her crossed legs, textured cheesecloth stacked with the yellow at the bottom, pink in the middle, and blue on top.

Weeping Woman No. 3, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
18" x 14" x 14"

Sleeping Woman, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
42" x 18" x 24"

Resilience Sculptures

Drawing from desert flora, cycles of growth, and objects of renewal this series transforms resilience into softness. Made slowly, each piece of cheesecloth is hand painted, then folded and woven into forms of endurance and renewal, becoming symbols of transformation. These works embody strength made gentle, and beauty born from adaptation.

Desert Cactus, 2025
Cheesecloth, Steel Armature, Wood
27" x 24"

Prickly Pear Cactus, 2025
Cheesecloth, Steel Armature, River Stones
18" x 17"

Lotus Flower, 2025
Cheesecloth, Steel Armature
24" x 24"

A Wish for Peace, 2025
Cheesecloth, Gouache, Polyethylene, Wood
18" x 8"

Wall Works

Each of the Wall Work series explores the intersection of painting and sculpture, where surface becomes structure and color becomes form with painterly brushstrokes of fiber. Built through layering and repetition, each piece examines texture, movement, and the emotional resonance of color.

A hitch cover featuring a 3D textured design of blue and pink flowers on a white background.

Color & Motion Blooming Wall Works

These wall works expand the sculptural surface into painterly gesture. Through color and rhythm, they explore how stillness and energy coexist within form — each piece an experiment in how color can shape emotion and space.

Pile of crumpled laundry or fabric in shades of purple, gray, and white with a small animal peeking through a hole in the center
A flower-shaped paper or fabric wreath in white and light blue, with an illustration of a girl holding a balloon in the center.
A close-up of a coral-colored flower with delicate, layered petals and a hint of white on the outer edges, placed against a white background.
A light-colored scrunchie made of soft, sheer fabric placed on a plain white background.

The Swimmers Wall Works

Inspired by fluidity and the human relationship with water, The Swimmers merge abstraction and motion. Layers of fiber and pigment evoke the shifting boundaries between body and environment, a meditation on brave surrender, disappearing into vastness, and the transformational power of water.

A set of three paintings on a white wall, depicting a person with a red hat peeking out of the water at different depths, in front of a room with a door, a window with curtains, and a yellow shelf with jars and boxes.
A cozy interior room with textured white walls, two framed ocean-themed paintings, a teal cabinet with a black vase on top, a mustard yellow velvet armchair, and a black floor lamp with an adjustable shade.
Mixed media art piece featuring a painted sky with clouds, ocean waves made of fabric, and a small figure with red hair and sunglasses in the water.
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Painting of a person with yellow hair peeking over blue-green ocean waves, against a pale sky background.

Cube Studies Wall Works

An ongoing exploration of color, light, and the material density of wool fibers. Each cube examines how hue and texture interact across dimensional space creating a quiet serial study in rhythm, balance, and visual architecture.

Interior of a room with a wooden table, four stools with light blue cushions, a small vase with a single branch, and a colorful textile art piece on the wall depicting three abstract shapes on a blue background.
Textile art with a textured, multicolored abstract shape in pink, purple, and orange, framed in wood, hanging on a white wall.