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Bio:
Nancy Crawford, a native of Ohio,
has lived in Florida since 1948. She began her art career
in 1970 after attending Brevard Community College and the
Eliot McMurrough School of Art. Later, she was the Faculty
Director and Instructor at the Eliot McMurrough School of
Art. She has been the Director of the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery,
Melbourne, Florida for fourteen of its thirty years. Nancy's
watercolors have been featured in major national exhibitions,
including the prestigious Watercolor USA, Southeastern Watercolorists
III and IV, Coconut Grove, Winter Park and Gasparilla, winning
many top awards. Nancy has had numerous one woman shows and
is well represented in many corporate and private collections.
She is still very active painting and conducting watercolor
seminars and demonstrations
Statement:
Nancy Crawford's paintings are impressionistic
transparent watercolors. They clearly reflect her commitment
to capturing a close observation of nature by painting light
and color.
"I paint because I am in love with
painting. I feel responsibility to my art and to myself to
produce an image that will share with the viewer my feelings
and thoughts. If through my art, I can make one more aware
of nature and conscious of its beauty, then I fell I have
been successful. If my watercolor makes the viewer reflect
on his own feelings, then I feel the painting is successful."
Nancy's paintings have received many national
and regional awards and are included in corporate and public
collections in the United States and abroad.
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