ABOUT THE ARTIST

NICOLE MCNEILL
Shamanic Artist

Shamanic artist Nicole McNeill (Shamanic Brush Strokes) creates black-and-white automatic drawings using digital media software, transforming chaotic intuitive linework into symmetrical compositions that introduce containment without suppressing spontaneity. Rooted in visionary, shamanic practice, her work explores how order emerges from disorder, using structure as a means of revealing meaning rather than premeditated design or imposed control.

This process reflects the dynamic relationship between chaos and order, where structure illuminates rather than dominates disorder. Influenced by shamanism, Jungian psychology, yin/yang (Daoism), mandalas, and sacred geometry each drawing functions as a medium through which messages are revealed and completed through interpretation. By limiting the palette to black and white, her work emphasizes contrast, balance, and archetypal form, inviting viewers into a contemplative space where intuition and structure coexist.

McNeill’s practice resides within conceptual, spiritual, and experimental frameworks, distinct from commercial or trend-driven abstraction. Through process-based and system-oriented drawing, she employs reductive methods to clarify intent and reveal structure. In this transparency, nothing is concealed: layers of perception unfold—images within images—encouraging viewers to look beyond surface appearance and engage with the work’s symbolic depth.

As a traveling artist inspired by landscapes and cultures she encounters, allowing her surroundings to guide the automatic drawings she creates. Each environment serves as a conduit for intuitive messages, with the energies, forms, and rhythms of the natural and cultural world shaping her linework and compositions. Her nomadic practice embraces mobility and openness, enabling her to respond to place, experience, and vision in real time, while maintaining the flexibility to create works for collection and collaboration.