Nicki La Rosa was born in St. Petersburg, Florida.  She began painting at age four, while attending Montessori school.  With continued encouragement and praise from her father at such an early age, she never looked back.  When beginning a new piece, Nicki lets the colors take her wherever the painting wants to go.  She prefers vibrant palates because they best reflect the passion and spontaneity of her own thoughts and emotions.  While each painting has a mood all its own, reoccurring themes that fill her work include the ocean, the sun, sea creatures, and hidden imagery for the perceiver to find and delight in.  All of her work is a discovery of self.  Painting is Nicki’s freedom, salvation, spirituality, salty sea air, and favorite form of therapy.