Nicole Anne.

Nicole Anne.

@nicolewalker.bsky.social

Illustrations, Writing, Comics Used to be a lot of things BC, 🇨🇦 “Talk less smile more”…maybe, most likely Shares neurodivergence (not just AuADHD) incl Aphantasia & Life so far (Ideas -WIP, OC) NO AI

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I’m Nicole Anne, an artist, author living in Surrey BC & I love it. I’m currently working on my Illustration journey in children’s books & something more YA to adult. Follow for cats, dogs, birds, bearded dragons & me slowly recovering from burnout or losing my mind depending on the day #LBC2026

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Changing up my approach to sketchbooks. Going to stop doing such finished work and use them more for messy stuff and if I want to push something further I’ll use watercolor paper. Need a place for chaos

If you don’t know Eric’s work - you’ve been missing out. #ink #canadianartist #novascotia #art #illustration

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Changing up my approach to sketchbooks. Going to stop doing such finished work and use them more for messy stuff and if I want to push something further I’ll use watercolor paper. Need a place for chaos

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I am so tired 😴. Somehow my body thinks it’s 3 hours ahead and 3 hours behind all at the same time and I never even made it out socially Ready for bed for this West Coaster YYZ to YYZ Hopefully more west coasters come next year!! Again a burst of creative energy once I return💕 #pyi2026 #pyi2027

Just got home from #PYI2026 Had great conversations, reconnected with talented peers, met new people AND only moderately embarrassed myself - Success! #canscaip

2am and feeling no sense of winding down. Jet lag in full effect and being 3 hours behind not helping when I’m already a night owl. 🌙 🦉 Think I will be heading out for some melatonin when the suns up so I don’t oversleep my Saturday conference. I will have a seat this year not in the back row🫠

Today at Grammie’s Farm we have a Fly with only One Left Wing Me considering saving this guys life and then realizing the cats would murder him in 2 seconds, also I hate flies. But I can’t turn away a wounded animal and apparently insect.

One time I let a bee unscrew it made a mistake and stung me and immediately tried to unscrew. I sat threw the pain and swelling and then once out my body completely reacted like a baby 😭

Anyone going through CPTSD therapy, regaining control of their life from burnout as a late undiagnosed high masking severe ADHD & later finding out likely autistic too, well yes definitely; from a family of all undiagnosed mix neurodivergence’s & now chronically ill & disabled physically? Just me?

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I liked the badly photographed menus in Chinese restaurants growing up. They wouldn’t win photo prizes, but I could tell what the dish was, even if I couldn’t read the menu. A ‘pretty’ AI photo doesn’t show what the food actually is, why would I want to buy it (also it sometimes looks like worms).

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WHY are you, a restaurant, using AI for your posters????? that's literally not what your food looks like????? just use a picture of your damn food??????

I’m genuinely terrified about the rampant use of AI right now & how much it’s taken over our lives. I’m a parent to a very tech forward teen & a very art forward tween……It’s like they may have each been influenced by a parent 🤔

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I liked the badly photographed menus in Chinese restaurants growing up. They wouldn’t win photo prizes, but I could tell what the dish was, even if I couldn’t read the menu. A ‘pretty’ AI photo doesn’t show what the food actually is, why would I want to buy it (also it sometimes looks like worms).

I’m a disabled RN perusing art & writing; my partner, a civil transportation Engineer. You can imagine house “conversations” Things can get a little opinionated around here sometimes. Mom is very anti ai Child is not and partner are not completely. Other child also anti ai.

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I really think this bird is a female right? Right! Trying to find out/research how old will it be when juvenile males & females become definitely distinguishable, 💯 definable, no questions asked. I don’t know why bird sexing troubles me so 😭 I hate not knowing things. #LBConversation #birdtalk 🪶

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I had questioned if my mother maybe had psychosis in the past. I thought it stopped; attributed to postpartum after the loss of my brother. He didn’t live long earth side and died shortly after being born via emergency c-section. #amwriting #bipolar1 #auadhd

My mother had been “rushed” from Chilliwack to B.C. women’s. Rushed my mother recounted, felt like 3 hours & they stopped along the way. I a teen didn’t read the autopsy reports my mother obsessed over, sometimes ignoring the needs of my toddler brother and forgetting me. But trying to find a cause.

I should be submitting receipts to recoup costs of living but I’m procrastinating and working on Nanny Frans. Apparently I’ve been making ACEOS the whole time - who knew?! #catsky #catportraits #aceos #cattycards

Illustrators, Artists Creatives in Toronto area - In search of recommendations to get reacquainted with my lost long home of Toronto Things I have to do: See my old place in the upper beaches. Check out my two old grandparents places and church in North York. Sketching above #torontocreatives

My partner just came home from the Island. I was very eager to share our new Bunny friend news. Like hello a BUNNY!!! However….he had a whale of a tail. Two whales and two tails. One big One small What Rabbit? Bunny who? Move over for HumpBacks 🐋 Mama and a little calf too.

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The bird hour Friday is quiet today. Birds are taking advantage of the clear skies BOAT or if I was doing an exhibition - “Mother” looks angry but her heart is still intact at the center. #LBCconversation #birdstories #

The bird hour Friday is quiet today. Birds are taking advantage of the clear skies BOAT or if I was doing an exhibition - “Mother” looks angry but her heart is still intact at the center. #LBCconversation #birdstories #

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I will conclude this quiet Friday bird hour unless things get wild and crazy up here with the little Sparrow that has been hanging around in the cedars, lilacs and Peony bushes for cover. I think she nests with the Juncos in the dense cedars next door but I’m hoping she picks our yard this year.

The bird hour Friday is quiet today. Birds are taking advantage of the clear skies BOAT or if I was doing an exhibition - “Mother” looks angry but her heart is still intact at the center. #LBCconversation #birdstories #

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The bird hour Friday is quiet today. Birds are taking advantage of the clear skies BOAT or if I was doing an exhibition - “Mother” looks angry but her heart is still intact at the center. #LBCconversation #birdstories #

And if I’m talking about the birds…just like when I was a kid I can’t forget to talk about the bees. (I litterally used to say a prayer for the birds and the bees which my Catholic family thought was hilarious 😑🙃) But the leaf cutter bees I think have been showing up this week so, tubes went out🐝

Correction, Berwick Wren checked back in at the Manor on September 26th of this year. Last year he did not make his presence known officially until the new year but evidence was seen by eating the left over Halloween 🎃 Pumpkins and Seeds being found everywhere…..we thought it was rats 🐀….It was Wren

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Berwick Wren has been back since the start of October and is up to 4 potential nesting spots he’s making in the hanging planters. I’m being a bad host. Last night I scared him at 10pm and he flew out at me. (Nest isn’t finished & barely holding onto his spot) And this morning he flew into window

Take note. The wren was Fine!! He did not care about his old nest. I put it back up & he did not want it. He wanted the new ones to make new nests. He has started 3 holes in the new one with wires. I already thinking how to make a moss planter next year with a box insert that they may choose to use

Pay no attention to the top of the dresser!😂 Mother-Daughter cleaning session to redecorate turned Impromptu ADHD dresser restoration project in the moment…so much fun when Mom is late diagnosed ADHD and daughter is ADHD but it doesn’t impact her enough at school to get a diagnosis. Life is so 🤩 fun

Pumpkins Pumkins Pumkins. Child claimed this too. Scanned both, so maybe one day…when I have a shop open….one day….she said to the void…or the snail mail?! First I need 1 or more kids to stay in school all day & more than 2-3 days a week #PDAparenting #artiststruggles #burnout #LBConversations

Berwick Wren has been back since the start of October and is up to 4 potential nesting spots he’s making in the hanging planters. I’m being a bad host. Last night I scared him at 10pm and he flew out at me. (Nest isn’t finished & barely holding onto his spot) And this morning he flew into window