Liz Nichols

Liz Nichols is a Journeyman Cement Mason living and working in Portland, Oregon.

Her works blend concrete and plaster castings with pressed botanicals, and gold and copper leaf. Nichols grows all the plant material used in her work. The intentional combination of concrete and botanical materials honors her background as a construction worker and gardener.

Growing up, Nichols was a terrible student in a family where college was presented as the only path towards success. After years of struggling, it was exploring an alternative in the trades that gave Nichols the ability to earn a living wage and to discover the joy of working with her hands. It was also through this occupation that she crafted her identity as an artist.

Nichols expresses immense gratitude for all the steps that led her to her first concrete pour thirteen years ago.

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