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 and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) from Creative Scotland in 2019, which led to her membership Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop (FDPW) to explore etching techniques.

Nicola's artworks are formed from memories and drawings contemplating autobiography and landscape. As a printmaker and painter, she frequently merges both practices together.
The delicate rhythmic mark making in Nicola's work, creates a soothing mediative feel of the Scottish landscape that surrounds her. Her calming colour palette and the gentle flow of contrasts highlight the luminescent quality in her work giving an insight to how these recollected scenes of personal significance offered a sense of clarity and calm during times of change.

Nicola is an elected Professional Artist Member of both the Scottish Society of Artists (SSA) and Visual Arts Scotland (VAS). She has exhibited widely across Scotland, including a solo exhibition at Grampian Hospital Arts Trust and in several selected large group shows including the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and Aberdeen Art Gallery. In recent years, Nicola's prints have been 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. The following year, Nicola's studio practice was featured in Pressing Matters magazine. In 2025, Edinburgh Printmakers awarded Nicola as their Print Day in May winner, which led to a visiting artist residency at their studio earlier this year to explore collagraph techniques.

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