Nikki Monaghan was born in Bathgate, Scotland in 1971. She studied at The Scottish College of Textiles gaining a BA(Hons) Degree in Printed Textiles.
During her career Nikki has worked as an interior stylist and designer, also spending time involved with community arts.Today she produces paintings full of colour which evolve by layering a mix of acrylics, oil pastels and collage.
Her paintings are influenced by many everyday things especially the weather. The Scottish landscapes and seascapes are her main subject matter. The subjects are created from memories in a quirky manner, where figures and animals often feature in the paintings. Nikki feels that working from memory allows her art work to take on a stylized abstract feel. She paints on board and canvas which allows her to layer up mediums creating dense rich colours often discarding her paintbrush and using other means of getting paint onto canvas.
In addition to Red Rag Gallery Nikki Monaghan art work has been exhibited at a number of other Scottish Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Nikki Monaghan artist studio and like all Red Rag Scottish art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide.