Because I was born and raised in southern California I attribute my palette of intense colors to that region. Whether working in oils or in opaque gouache watercolors, my pigments stay close to the sun.
I prefer to apply a coat of pure color (imprimatura) to the white ground with very little, if any, over painting. Cool, dark tones which generally recede are frequently applied to frontal areas, while warm and lighter tones often are used for distant shapes bringing them forward creating a flat format.
Whether depicting the human figure, animal forms, still lifes or landscape images, my work focuses on the visual excitement of close color values as well as those that contrast dramatically.
MASTER OF ARTS - FINE ARTS, San Jose State University
BACHELOR OF ARTS - FINE ARTS, DISTINCTION IN MAJOR, San Diego State University
CALIFORNIA TEACHING CREDENTIAL - FINE ARTS, Lifetime, Community College
GRADUATE STUDIES - FINE ARTS, University of California at Los Angeles, Arizona State University at Tempe
NOTABLE INSTRUCTOR: Elmer Bischoff - - Bay Area Figurative School
PROFESSIONAL ART INSTRUCTOR, in life drawing, experimental water color, and painting/drawing the costumed figure
PROFESSIONAL ART LECTURER: “WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY”
PUBLISHED WORK: “SHOWTIME” by Nancie L. Crowley, a teaching aid for Secondary Schools
RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Oils and Gouaches, Harmonics Corp.
2006 Gouache,“The Female Gaze: Women Looking at Men”, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Ca.
2006 Gouache, “Calla”, 3rd Place “Flower Power”, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, Ca.
2006 Oil, “Honoring the Feminine”, Center for Visual Art, San Jose City College, San Jose, Ca.
2006 Oil,“Women’s Work”, South Bay Artists Women’s Caucus for the Arts, San Jose, Ca.
2005-6 Oils and Gouaches, Between Waters Gallery, Menlo Park, Ca.
2005, Fifteen oils and watercolors, Town Hall, Los Altos Hills, Ca.
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