NICO BELICO

Artist / Aruba

NicoBelico

Self-taught artist in Aruba working across acrylic, murals, mixed media, digital illustration, clothing and expressive websites.

See the workStart with a wall
Nico Belico hand-painting a long geometric artwork on the studio floor
Paint first. Explain later.

I make with my hands first.

Paint gives the work its pulse. Pixels let it travel.

Acrylic and mixed media

Made by hand.

Layered color, raw lines, found references, and whatever tool gets the idea out.
Circular mixed-media painting surrounded by coral, blue and cream forms
Dense acrylic assemblage of architectural forms and layered marks
Large figurative painting with three characters in coral, violet and black
Acrylic canvas divided into gold, black and coral fields
Layered mixed-media composition with repeated faces and gestural marks
Graphic painted panel combining symbols, lettering and color blocks
Framed black line composition with small green and coral details
A painted interior portrait in warm orange, green and red tones

Large-scale painting

Scale changes the conversation.

Some ideas need the floor, the wall, and the whole room.
Nico Belico working across a large geometric floor painting
Room-scale painted city forms extending across a wall and furniture
Nico Belico standing beside a large hand-painted wall composition

Murals for real spaces

See the wall before the paint.

I photograph the room, study its rhythm, and build a visual proposal within one week. Once the direction is right, the mural moves into production.
Bedroom wall before the mural proposal
BeforeVisual proposal

The comparison shows the original bedroom and a visual proposal with a tropical mural, climbing wall, and finished room styling.

  1. VisitWalk the space and photograph what is really there.
  2. AnalyzeRead the light, scale, movement, and personality of the business or room.
  3. VisualizeReceive a clear mockup within one week.
  4. ProduceApprove the direction, prepare the wall, and bring it into the physical space.

Digital illustration

Pixels, still painted.

Illustration, pattern, collage, and characters built with the same instinct as the canvases.
Ultraviolet and amber pigment field

Move through the color

Desktop pointer interaction. The complete work stays visible below.
Digital illustration of figures moving through an architectural portal
Bright digital bouquet held between two blue and coral sleeves
Black and white field of hand-drawn studio glyphs
Illustrated jungle pattern filled with instruments and masks
Digital painting of a seated guitarist in a landscape
Folk-inspired floral illustration held by a black hand

One subject, three rhythms

Musician studies

Expressive digital portrait of a saxophone playerExpressive digital portrait of a bass playerExpressive digital portrait of a guitar player

Clothing and objects

Wear the color.

Hand-painted sneakers and apparel concepts turn the palette into pieces that move through the world.
A collection of illustrated jacket and apparel conceptsColor study for a hand-painted high-top shoeTwo white shirts carrying Nico Belico artwork studies
Cora Studio creative website set against the landscape of Aruba

Websites and Cora Studio

The studio goes digital.

I founded Cora Studio in Aruba to carry visual ideas across photography, drone, video, murals, and websites.

Visit Cora Studio

Commissions / Murals / Collaborations

Have a wall, brand, room, or strange idea?

Show me the space. I will show you what it could become.
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