by Nanci Hersh | Dec 9, 2015 | artists, Inspiration, sculpture, welding, What's in My Drawers
Drawing is the most direct line connecting my heart and my hand. It is a visceral response to a place, or situation. (leaving the) Nest series was created from the shadows cast from a sculpture I welded this summer at the Marshall Bridge Workshop with Stan Smokler....
by Nanci Hersh | Oct 27, 2015 | 798 ICAF, Art Events, Art Exhibitions and Events, artists, Collaboration, Inspiration, Travel, Workshops
Some of my favorite memories from 798 ICAF in Beijing were the times we spent with our ICAF hosts, Hattie, Sasha, and Mariana and the 9 other invited artists. We had many opportunities to hang together at lunch, coffee breaks, took each other’s workshop when...
by Nanci Hersh | Sep 18, 2015 | artists, Inspiration, Paintings, Prints, sculpture, welding, Works of Art
Two hearts that played on distant shores Content though they were, they wanted more These two lines are from a poem that my husband Scott wrote to celebrate our marriage. Titled Pure Love, it tells the story of our long distant love affair that began 22 years ago as a...
by Nanci Hersh | Jul 23, 2015 | Art Events, Art Exhibitions and Events, artists, sculpture, Teaching, welding, Welding, Workshops
As our week at the Marshall Bridge Welding Workshop with Stan Smokler moves to its final day tomorrow, our t-shirts with Think Sculpture printed on the back, rings true. There are sculptures in various stages all over the rustic Kennett Square outdoor studio,...
by Nanci Hersh | Jul 16, 2015 | Art Events, artists, Home/Studio, Inspiration, Koi Pond Series, Painting, Painting by the Pond, Painting by the Pond Workshop, Summer painting workshop, Teaching, Works of Art, Workshops
Writer, artist and student, Ivana Gatica is guest blogger this week. In David Hockney: A Bigger Picture a film by Bruno Wollheim, Hockney returns to paint his native Yorkshire. At the onset of the film we see Hockney driving the English countryside as he reflects that...
by Nanci Hersh | Apr 30, 2015 | Art Events, Art Exhibitions and Events, artists, Inspiration, Painting, Paintings
Nicole Royer is a painter and designer currently working in Wilmington, DE. Nicole and I check in with each other weekly about our work and the business of being an artist. She’s exhibiting her work at Highland Arts Garage in Wilmington, DE with a reception...