Rita Nichols

Rita Nichols has been an artist and potter for more than 30 years and has studied at universities and art institutes in California, Indiana, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. She holds a B.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. As a freelance artist, she has worked in various mediums: oils, pastels, photography, lithography, woodcut, stone sculpture, and clay. As a scientific illustrator and graphic artist, she felt that working with clay was an antidote to the strict and meticulous methodology of commercial art. Clay is Nichols’s main focus and gives her the satisfaction and freedom of expression that had always been, for her, the essential appeal of clay. Currently Nichols creates pottery at Windblown Studio in Rochester Mills, Pennsylvania.