At the age of thirteen I was invited into the imaginative worlds of role-playing games. As a happy victim under the spell of fantasy, I soon began to long for a way of incarnating the vivid realms of my mind. Happily, I realized that I had the ability to draw... in a rudimentary fashion back then, but nevertheless, my hands created monsters!!! (and a few benevolent beings...)

Some years later I found myself in a studio illustrating for '101 Production' (responsible for the Swedish RPG 'Viking' and 'Neoviking'.) From there I soon made my way to Art School where I studied painting and print-making... and surprisingly got intimately fascinated by abstract art.

In the summer of 2006 I rediscovered the joy of inventing fantastic fauna, and also bought my first Wacom tablet. I now urge now to make a living off painting, instead of teaching, which has been my main support for the last eight years. Aid me in this venture, and I will not fail to deliver.

So far I've done book-covers for Swedish and Norweigan publishers 'Norstedts', 'Rabén', and 'Kolibri'. I have done documentary film illustrations, and images for RPG-producer Paizo Publishing and other American game developers. If I have any say in the matter, this is just the beginning.

To get in contact with any of my clients just write me an e-mail.

/Nicholas Cloister