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— NGM painting above the National Elk Refuge at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Gallery Showings
Currently showing in
- Jackson Hole, Wy
- Vicor, Idaho
Available Work
View availabe works and on NGM Fine Art America. We offer framed and unframed prints, wearables, totes, and accessories.
Nicolette is available for select commissions, mural projects, exhibitions, and creative collaborations. Her work is especially well suited for collectors, homes, hospitality spaces, businesses, and community settings looking for art that feels distinctive, uplifting, and connected to place.
If you are interested in original work, a custom piece, a mural, or a creative partnership, inquiries are welcome
Mission
Nicolette’s work is guided by a belief that art can reveal hidden beauty, carry meaning, and bring lightness into everyday life. Her paintings are rooted in joy, reflection, courage, and connection, with color used not only as a visual tool, but as an emotional one.
Vision
To bring overlooked beauty to life through bold, vibrant color, transforming ordinary moments, quiet symbols, and hidden emotions into art that radiates joy, strength, and meaning.
I use bright, contrasting colors and thick, expressive paint to celebrate the beauty of animals and the world around us, encouraging people not to overlook what is right in front of them. In a world that can feel heavy, my mission is to offer inspiration and positivity through healing color, symbolic imagery, and hidden elements woven into each piece that create a story. The boldness of my palette reflects the courage to take risks, embrace life fully, and stay rooted in light, connection, and meaning.
Values
Revealing Hidden Beauty
I highlight the details, symbols, and quiet moments that are often overlooked, bringing them to life with bold, expressive color.
Joy Through Color
Life can be heavy. My art is a counterweight, a burst of brightness, playfulness, and emotional relief.
Reflection
Art should help people see themselves more clearly: their truth, their strength, their softness.
Connection
Every piece is a bridge: between human and animal, intuition and action, self and community.
Courage
I honor the bravery it takes to grow, heal, and trust your path, and I paint that bravery into every stroke.
Beauty with Purpose
Aesthetic matters, but meaning matters more. My art carries messages, symbols, and emotional resonance. Every hue carries meaning.
Nicolette Gdontakis Maw
Nicolette Gdontakis Maw creates work shaped by color, symbolism, and a deep affection for the natural world. Her paintings draw from wildlife, the Tetons, moments of quiet wonder, and the small details people often pass by too quickly. Through bold palettes, expressive movement, and hidden layers of meaning, her work invites people to look longer, feel more, and reconnect with beauty that is both immediate and lasting.
There is joy in the work, but also reflection. Each piece begins with a visual spark, then grows into something more personal: a study of strength, softness, memory, place, and presence. The goal is not simply to make something beautiful, but to create art that carries energy, emotion, and meaning into the spaces where people live with it.
About NGM the Artist
Nicolette Gdontakis Maw
Nicolette Gdontakis Maw creates work shaped by color, symbolism, and a deep affection for the natural world. Her paintings draw from wildlife, the Tetons, moments of quiet wonder, and the small details people often pass by too quickly. Through bold palettes, expressive movement, and hidden layers of meaning, her work invites people to look longer, feel more, and reconnect with beauty that is both immediate and lasting.
There is joy in the work, but also reflection. Each piece begins with a visual spark, then grows into something more personal: a study of strength, softness, memory, place, and presence. The goal is not simply to make something beautiful, but to create art that carries energy, emotion, and meaning into the spaces where people live with it.
About Nicolette
Based in the greater Jackson Hole and Teton region, Nicolette Gdontakis Maw is a fine artist whose work is known for its vibrant color, expressive style, and distinctive vision of wildlife and the natural world. Her paintings often blend observation with imagination, bringing together regional landscapes, animals, abstraction, and symbolic detail in a way that feels both rooted and alive.
Her work reflects a love of color as a language of feeling. Whether she is painting wildlife, mountain forms, or more playful and unexpected subjects, Nicolette approaches each piece with the belief that art can brighten a room, shift a mood, and help people see familiar things with fresh attention. The result is a body of work that feels joyful, contemporary, and deeply personal.
Available for Select
Commissions, Murals, & Collaborations
Nicolette is available for select commissions, mural projects, exhibitions, and creative collaborations. Her work is especially well suited for collectors, homes, hospitality spaces, businesses, and community settings looking for art that feels distinctive, uplifting, and connected to place.
If you are interested in original work, a custom piece, a mural, or a creative partnership, inquiries are welcome.
Commissioning a Work
Commissioning a piece is an opportunity to create something personal while still staying true to Nicolette’s artistic voice. Commissions may draw from signature themes such as wildlife, the Tetons, expressive color, and the natural world, while also responding to the setting, scale, and feeling a client hopes to bring into a space.
Each commission begins with a conversation about subject, size, palette, and overall direction. From there, the process is guided with care, clarity, and collaboration, with the goal of creating work that feels meaningful, lasting, and fully at home in its final setting.
Murals
Nicolette also accepts mural inquiries for residential, commercial, hospitality, school, and community spaces. Her mural work brings the same bold color, movement, and emotional energy found in her studio practice into larger environments designed to be remembered.
If you have a wall, a space, or an idea in mind, mural inquiries are welcome.