Originally from Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire, Nicola McInally graduated in 2001 from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, specialising in Painting. After developing her practice for several years, Nicola received a Visual Artist Craft Makers Award from Creative Scotland in 2019, which led to her membership Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop (FDPW), to explore etching techniques.

Memories and drawings contemplating autobiography and landscape from the basis of her artwork.
In her most recent series, In the Still, the quiet moments in a busy household at the beginning and end of the day whilst witnessing the scenic landscapes of Fife and the Lothians from Nicola's home are recreated in her paintings and etched prints.

Nicola has exhibited widely across Scotland, including a solo exhibition at Grampian Hospital Arts Trust and in several selected large group shows at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and Aberdeen Art Gallery. In 2023, two of Nicola’s prints were selected for the Curated Hang at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London where she was chosen as one of the Top Picks of the fair by WCPF panellist, Tom Hammick. In 2024 Nicola featured in Pressing Matters magazine, was chosen by California Printmakers Society as one of their Print Day in May winners, became a professional artist member of VAS and SSA and selected as one of the prize winners of Aberdeen Artists Society members exhibition at Gallery Heinzel.

Nicola continues to be an active member of FDPW and works between the print workshop and her studio at home in Dunfermline.