Winter Sanctuary
Medium: Watercolor
Image size: 16 1/2 x 21
Fall Splendor
Medium: Pastel
Image size: 12x24
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Winter Sanctuary |
Fall Splendor |
Contact the Artist:
To send Nancy an e-mail, please click on: email@nwylie.com
Or call the studio at: 303-420-8169
To see more of Nancy's work please visit her web site @ www.nwylie.com
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Nancy's Biography
Nancy Wylie is a realist painter working in watercolor, pastels and oils. Her passion for painting the world as she sees it comes from living in Colorado as a sixth generation native of Arvada. She loves how the blue skies and sunshine create deep values and colors giving her work depth and light.
Galleries
Nancy has loved art as long as she can remember. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Art Education with a minor in Outdoor Education, in 1977. During that time she studied art in Italy for half a year and studied the masters throughout her travels in Europe. She taught art in Jefferson County Schools for several years before staying at home to be a full time mom. Over time she began devoting her professional talents to painting full time, teaching workshops, giving critiques, and jurying shows locally and nationally.
What motivates Nancy to paint is “the beauty of God’s creation” and the desire to capture that beauty with paint, emphasizing light with the use of strong values. Subtle patterns of color and striking light and shadows move her to paint a variety of landscape scenes to beautiful florals.
Nancy conveys a sense of reality and beauty that transports the viewer into a world that they can relate to. “I see such subtle beautiful things around me that I just want to capture them in the moment and preserve them forever on paper or canvas. I want to express to the world through my painting that God still speaks clearly through His creation,” says the artist.
Nancy is a member of numerous arts organizations and is a signature member of both the Colorado Watercolor Society and the Colorado Pastel Society.
Collections
- Ago Gallery, Ouray, Colorado
- Main Street Gallery, Glenwood Springs, CO
- Sand Dollar Gallery, Denver, CO
Exhibitions
- Time-Warner
- Jackson National Life Insurance
- Markwest Hydrocarbon
- West Star Bank, Avon, Colorado
- Glenwood Springs Chamber of Commerce
- Neil-Garing Insurance
- The Broadmore Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO
- Second 100 of the Paint the Parks National Competition, 2008
- Pastel Society of America 35th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY, 2007
- Arts for the Parks, Mini 50, Jackson Hole, WY, 2002
- Anniversary Collection Artist, Channel 6 Auction, PBS, Denver, CO, 2003, 2008
- Northern Colorado Artists Association National Art Exhibition, Fort Collins, CO, 2001-2008
- Colorado Watercolor Society, State Watermedia Exhibition, Denver, CO, 1996-2008
- Colorado Mt. Club “Where the Mountains Meet the Sky” Invitational, Golden, CO, 2004
- Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Golden, CO, 1999, 2003, 2005
- American Academy of Women Artists Associate Members Show, Patrons Gallery, Denver, CO, 2003
Copyright © 2008, by Nancy Wylie. All rights reserved. Photographs and artwork may not be copied in any form without the express permission of the copyright holder.