About

Nina Marlotte is a Saint Louis based artist. Born in Ballwin, she experienced art at an early age through reading graphic novels and comics from the 70s-90s. Influenced by the weird and abrasive cartoonists of that time, such as Charles Burns, R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman, she took to embrace her ideas of obscure monsters and dream-like scenarios in her art.

The comic dream would lead Nina to printmaking in 2017, where she began to study etching, lino, screenprint and lithography printmaking. Her internship with Tom Huck let her experience woodcut printmaking, which provided similar shading styles and a unique touch to her cartoon lineart style. Fully embracing the spontaneity of printmaking and her ideas for monsters and beasts, her current work shows depictions of mythological creatures, demons from the Book of Paimon and other texts, original monstrous creations, views into personas and hybrid animals. 

Currently she resides in University City, where she continues to work on her line of large woodcuts about the stages of grief, and smaller side projects, including commissions and her own comic.

marlotten3873@gmail.com