Home: Agency, Chance, and Systems


This Place, oil on linen, 30in. x 40in., 2026

Nicole Maynard’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, digital media, and game-based works, examining the concept of home as a condition shaped by agency, chance, and broader social systems.

Using abstracted architectural forms, shifting landscapes, and recurring motifs such as houses and moving boxes, she creates images that exist between abstraction and representation. Geometry and color structure the work, while these forms function as metaphors for environments in flux—reflecting displacement, transition, and self-determination.

The work considers the psychological dimensions of home in relation to belonging, stability, and change. At its core, it reflects a capacity for reinvention, where shifting environments mirror the resilience required to navigate them.