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Born and raised in the Midwest, Nancy moved to California as a young adult. She loved the abundance of nature and the great weather found in California and enjoyed drawing and painting florals, landscapes, animals and marine scenes. She progressed her style into abstraction, but can still create realistically when so inspired.
Life took a few twists and turns and she returned to the Midwest where she lived in a hundred-year-old farmhouse. An outbuilding, once a chicken coop, was converted into her art studio.
The vast landscapes of the rural Midwest influenced her work once again and modified her style into creating abstracted landscapes. In these flowing acrylic paintings on canvas and board, she developed a unique view of land, water, and sky. She abstracts the view by letting the flow of fluid acrylics create a sense of place. The painting can go in many directions. It could become an idyllic view of a pristine lake, a vast landscape with a stormy sky or a scene that might exist in another world.
Nancy doesn't force the painting to become “something real”. She guides the work to resemble what could be found under water, or up on dry land. The toughest part is leaving it alone as it dries. "I tend to make little tweaks as I move paint about the canvas. Sometimes those tweaks keep me working a painting for hours! My instincts kick in and I pull off paint and add more as I wait for the paint to do its thing and reveal to me what it wants to be. " -Nancy
Life took a few twists and turns and she returned to the Midwest where she lived in a hundred-year-old farmhouse. An outbuilding, once a chicken coop, was converted into her art studio.
The vast landscapes of the rural Midwest influenced her work once again and modified her style into creating abstracted landscapes. In these flowing acrylic paintings on canvas and board, she developed a unique view of land, water, and sky. She abstracts the view by letting the flow of fluid acrylics create a sense of place. The painting can go in many directions. It could become an idyllic view of a pristine lake, a vast landscape with a stormy sky or a scene that might exist in another world.
Nancy doesn't force the painting to become “something real”. She guides the work to resemble what could be found under water, or up on dry land. The toughest part is leaving it alone as it dries. "I tend to make little tweaks as I move paint about the canvas. Sometimes those tweaks keep me working a painting for hours! My instincts kick in and I pull off paint and add more as I wait for the paint to do its thing and reveal to me what it wants to be. " -Nancy
Nancy earned an AA in studio art from El Camino College in Torrance, Ca., and a BA in computer video imaging from Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, Ca., graduating valedictorian. She went into the web design and user experience research field while continuing her artistic practice.
She has taught watercolor still life, figure painting and her abstract technique and other forms of expression at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, Ca, at many art leagues in California and Illinois, and to those affected by cancer through Living Proof Exhibit at the NASIF Cancer Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She currently teaches art privately.
Nancy loves teaching her abstract techniques especially to the realist artist to help them break out of being too caught up in details and get frustrated when a painting doesn’t come out perfect. "In this style of painting, it's all about letting go and seeing what the muses have in mind. They have their own version of perfection.” -Nancy
Recently relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, she's fallen in love with the town; its architecture, its people and its great community pride. Here she bought herself a brick gingerbread house in the city and moved her art practice into a newly remodeled studio which was once a furniture factory.
Nancy's art work is in collections in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
She has taught watercolor still life, figure painting and her abstract technique and other forms of expression at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, Ca, at many art leagues in California and Illinois, and to those affected by cancer through Living Proof Exhibit at the NASIF Cancer Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She currently teaches art privately.
Nancy loves teaching her abstract techniques especially to the realist artist to help them break out of being too caught up in details and get frustrated when a painting doesn’t come out perfect. "In this style of painting, it's all about letting go and seeing what the muses have in mind. They have their own version of perfection.” -Nancy
Recently relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, she's fallen in love with the town; its architecture, its people and its great community pride. Here she bought herself a brick gingerbread house in the city and moved her art practice into a newly remodeled studio which was once a furniture factory.
Nancy's art work is in collections in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia.