ABOUT
karine nieman
Graphic Artist
I’m a freelance artist working across drawing, illustration, photography, and printmaking. Based in Scotland, I collaborate with clients both locally and remotely on a project-by-project basis.
My work is inspired by travel, architecture, colour, and everyday places. I specialise in vibrant travel art prints, hand-illustrated digitally on my iPad, creating bold and graphic compositions inspired by cities and landscapes.
Alongside my personal print collection, I also work on commissioned graphic design and illustration projects, creating visual identities, promotional materials, editorial pieces, and custom artwork for clients and businesses.
Hand Illustrated
Every piece begins with sketching and digital drawing, creating artwork with a personal and expressive feel.
Bold Visual Style
My signature colours combined with dramatic graphic compositions to create bold artwork.
Print & Design
From art prints to commissioned graphic design projects, I create visuals for both print and digital use.
A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ME…
My jorney started mostly inspired by the places I’ve visited while backpacking and travelling. For me, drawings are a special way to record of time and place…a way of holding onto a unique urban experience. Many of my sketches I created on location through direct observation, capturing scenes exactly as I experience them in the moment. Some later evolve into digitally reconstructed and recoloured artworks, transformed into the vibrant prints and illustrations you see throughout my work.
Alongside being an artist, I’m also a mother! Something that deeply shapes both my identity and creative perspective. Motherhood has changed the way I observe the world, making me more present, emotionally connected, and attentive to the small details and memories that inspire my work.
As a Brazilian artist, I often return to the idea of saudade (one of my favourite words in Portuguese and it has no direct translation in English) but describes a deep emotional longing for a person, place, moment, or feeling that remains connected to you even after it’s gone… In many ways, my work is an attempt to preserve those emotions through colour, drawing, and storytelling.
” I purchased a framed print as a birthday gift for my husband, and he loved it! The art looks absolutely beautiful in person; the colours really pop. The artist was so sweet and amazing to work with. She went out of her way to deliver it herself locally to my husband, which was just above and beyond my expectations. I will definitely be buying more pieces from her and highly recommend her shop. “