by Nanci Hersh | Dec 7, 2016 | Prints, What's in My Drawers
In my art, as in my life, I wear my heart on my sleeve and use my work to examine and share my story. This small print is a line etching with aquatint for the rich tonal areas, and gold embossed rubber stamp. Recovering from a bilateral mastectomy, I felt tight, and...
by Nanci Hersh | Dec 6, 2016 | Koi Pond Series, Paintings, What's in My Drawers, Works of Art
Today’s post from What’s in My Drawers is a post election response to the state of affairs we are facing as a nation, and in the world at large. Koi fish have a powerful and energetic life force, demonstrated by their ability to swim against currents and...
by Nanci Hersh | Dec 5, 2016 | Inspiration, What's in My Drawers, Works of Art
What’s in My Drawers is back! Now through the end of the month I will be posting work from my flat files- or walls, many which have never been exhibited before. Starting with…Come Hither. Painting orchids is as alluring as having them grace your home....
by Nanci Hersh | Nov 29, 2016 | Inspiration, sculpture
Once again, I seem to be channeling my Inner Hunter and Gatherer. This time, the work is a potpourri of sculpture- my beloved and often enigmatic Nets as sanctuary spaces holding treasures found in backyard gardens and neighborhood walks with my dogs. I have made...
by Nanci Hersh | Nov 16, 2016 | Inspiration, Installation art, sculpture, Works of Art
As with most of my work, the Net sculptures are an intuitive or visceral response to an emotional state or experience. The first of the small sculptures made of wire, paper pulp and encaustic came into being after we moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania several years...
by Nanci Hersh | Oct 28, 2016 | 798 ICAF, Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings, Collaboration, Inspiration
With October winding down on this beautiful windy day I want to acknowledge the journey that my cousin Ellen McVicker and I have been on together with our book Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings. This month marks it’s 10th year out in the world and I want to...
by Nanci Hersh | Oct 23, 2016 | Collaboration, Inspiration, Workshops
Armed with my laptop, a stack of magazines, a pad of tracing paper, and somewhat of a general idea of what form this session will take with the residents of New Castle County Detention Center, I enter the building. Aimee Ellis, the volunteer coordinator and Debbie...
by Nanci Hersh | Oct 19, 2016 | Collaboration, sculpture, Teaching, Workshops
This post was originally written almost 6 years ago when I received my first Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant to work with a newly formed group of Young Moms at the Garage in Kennett Square, PA. Since that time my relationship with the YoungMoms Community has...
by Nanci Hersh | Sep 29, 2016 | Art Events, artists, Inspiration, Painting, Paintings
Recently I rediscovered a small book gifted to me many years ago. Page after page, the catalogue is an eruption of color in splotches and patterns on vessels that barely contain, yet seem to embody forces of nature…. “Artists get inspiration from the...
by Nanci Hersh | Sep 21, 2016 | Art Events, Inspiration, Italy travels, Open House/Studio Party, Open Studio House Party 2016, Painting
Saturday, September 24, 2016 is our 4th Annual Open House Studio Party. 5-9 pm Sure, I know you’re busy. You probably have a million things going on, we all do. But that’s the beauty of an Open Studio House Party- You can stop by before you head out...
