Nikita Andester paints rad art and writes rad stories in Toulouse, France.
What I do:
I’ve written and published dozens of short stories, given feedback on over 13000, and am editing my debut fantasy novel. Check out the latest in my writing world.
Oils and watercolors are deliciously distinct - and I’m proud to get my hands dirty doing both with watercolor cityscapes and oil portraits.
Celebrate a milestone with an oil portrait. A one-of-a-kind surrealist painting captures everything unique about you and your loved ones!
Fiction featured in The New Orleans Review + others, finalist in the Elizabeth George 2023 selections and 2025 Uncharted Magazine Horror Challenge, and winner of the 2024 Pulp Literature debut novel prize.
Visual art found in Photo Trouvée Magazine and Short Story, Long, as well as in-person spaces across Toulouse, France.
Art hurricane and chaos agent taking Toulouse by (gentle, hugging) storm.
Whether oil painting, watercoloring, hosting, or exploring the intersection of art and home design, unbridled curiosity and yeehaw-level enthusiasm guides my practice.
Years of camper life showed me more of the world than a traditional day job ever could. You learn as much about humans while getting a master’s in creative writing as you do cooking lasagna in your truck camper off Highway 1 as you do getting your sea legs as a sex writer bumming wi-fi in cafés around Berkeley.
As a visual artist, my biggest teacher, without a doubt, was the decade I spent figure modeling for art studios worldwide. Nothing highlights the impact of gravity like holding a pose for three hours!
Art is more than theory - it’s living somewhere new and eating ice cream at noon and getting your hands sticky with glue for a midnight project. And I may be rooted here in Toulouse, but you can bet that in every medium I tackle, I’m diving all the way in with that same art-life chaos.