NANCY PICKARD (born 1963)
“Headland, Cornwall”
Acrylic on Canvas.
40cm x 40cm. Signed IMAGE
“After the Storm, Cornwall”
Acrylic on Canvas.
90cm x 90cm.
Signed IMAGE
“Standing Stones, Cornwall”.
Mixed Media on Canvas.
40.5cm x 40.5cm
Signed with initials
“Remembered Landscape, Cornwall”
Mixed Media on Canvas. 60cm x 80cm. Signed
Nancy Pickard is a painter, ceramicist and jewellery maker. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and educated at Herm Island School and The Ladies College, Guernsey in the Channel Islands. She studied art from 1982
to 1983 at the Central School of Art in London and from 1983 to 1986 at
South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education (Cardiff Art College) where she gained a BA Hons
in Fine Art (Ceramics). In 1989 she
gained a City and Guilds in Desktop Publishing. Since 1985 she has had several
solo exhibitions in the Channel Islands, Wales, London and the South West of
England. She has also exhibited, and
continues to exhibit, in group exhibitions throughout Britain. From 1986 to 1988 she was
Project Artist with Pioneers Community Arts, making murals and sculptures with
children all over the South Wales area and from 1988 to 1990 she worked as a part-time Lecturer at
Hereford College of Art. From 1990 to
1993 she was Arts/Play Development Officer for Cardiff County Council and from
1993 to 2002 she worked as Co-ordinator of Permanent Waves Arts Association in Wales. She won the Princes Youth
Business Trust Award in 1988 and the Livewire Award in 1989. Nancy initially trained as a
ceramicist but now works as a full-time artist, using a wide range of
materials, including paint, clay and metals to produce her pieces. Her work is an instinctive and emotional
response to her environment and life experiences and she is often inspired by
the texture of a leaf or a particular rock.
Colour and the quality of materials have always been a very important
part of her practice. She loves strong rich colours and simple rhythmical
forms. Many of the shapes and images to be found in Nancy’s paintings can also be
seen in her sculptural jewellery and unusual ceramics. She is essentially an abstract artist but
likes to think of herself as naturalistic in the sense that she tries to
discover what is natural to and right for each material. She finds it challenging to make exactly the
right mark, to create just the natural balance of colour and texture
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