About - Dominic Nicholas Studio

I create art as a way to express ideas and concepts. I’m mostly self-taught and over the years have attended (and occasionally taught) various arts and crafts classes. This site is a collection of my work made using a variety of media and methods and made publicly accessible for the first time. If you have comments, questions or would like to commission work, please feel welcome to contact me. I emigrated to the USA in 1991 and have lived in California, Vermont and Massachusetts, where I now live with my wife and son.

Recent Work

2023 : COVID Ashes
2023 : Horseshoe Crabs
2021 : Blood Bullets
2018 : Torn
2018 : American Identity

Studies

1994-1997 Explorations into mixed media, paper casting and photographic design principles, San Francisco, CA

1997-1998 Photography, associate arts degree courses, CCSF, San Francisco, California. His studies included black & white photography, black and white laboratory and printing, color photography, color printing, photographic design concepts, view camera techniques and studio lighting. He was awarded a place on the dean’s honors list and was president of the CCSF photography society, which included curating an exhibition subsequently attended to by the San Francisco mayor.

2001-2004 Glassblowing, San Francisco, CA. Studied extensively at Public Glass – San Francisco’s center for the creation and education in the hot glass arts – under Joe Cariati, Peter Ivy, Jerry Kung, Sean Salstrom, James Mcleod, Heather Smith, Beth Fishman and others. Studied murrini and cane techniques at Firehouse Glass in Vancouver, Washington, under Anthony Schafermeyer and Claire Kelly. He made glasswork at various studios in the San Francisco Bay Area and regularly assisted other glassblowers in their work. Out of all arts and crafts I’ve been lucky to do, glassblowing was my all-time favorite.

Oct-Nov 2014 Sculptural crochet, Georgia Kennedy, Brookline Adult and Community Education (BACE), MA. Many years before, I discovered Ruth Asawa whose work I thought quite amazing. Earlier this year I had been learning crochet so when this sculptural crochet class came up on my doorstep, I had to attend.

Nov 2014 Encaustic Art, BACE, MA. I’d been experimenting and exploring different waxes and thought this could be interesting.

Jan-May 2014 Form in Space, taught by Greg Mencoff , MassArt, Boston, MA, optimistically described as “an introduction to issues central to thought and practice in three-dimensional art and design. Understanding form and space relationships is essential to sculptors, architects, industrial designers, and 2D artists and designers. Students explore scale, volume, mass, and space and creatively investigate form and position in space using a range of materials and building techniques.”.

2015-2016 Sand mold and silicon mold making processes, welding, aluminum casting and studio resident at Stonybrook Metal Arts and Sculpture School, Boston, MA

You can also read about my professional working life on LinkedIn.