by Nanci Hersh | Jul 29, 2016 | Home/Studio, Inspiration, Koi Pond Series, Painting by the Pond, Painting by the Pond Workshop, Paintings, Plein Air, Summer painting workshop, Teaching
What a great week of Painting by the Pond 2016! If you’ve ever taken- or taught an art workshop before you know that you come away renewed and inspired by the others in the group, whether you are an experienced painter or it is your first time working with a new...
by Nanci Hersh | Jul 20, 2016 | Inspiration, Koi Pond Series, Painting, Painting by the Pond, Painting by the Pond Workshop, Paintings, Plein Air, Workshops
Day #3 of Painting by the Pond 2016. This week long summer workshop, now in its 3rd year has our largest group to date with returning painters who have worked with me before, as well as new people with varying levels of experience in front of an easel. I enjoy working...
by Nanci Hersh | Jul 2, 2016 | Painting, Paintings, Travel
Home. Whether we have lived in a place for generations, or, are just passing through. Home as a place of comfort, safety and security, is a basic human need. The desire to understand this need and to find our interconnectedness through memory, place, history is always...
by Nanci Hersh | Jun 2, 2016 | Art Events, Art Exhibitions and Events, Installation art, Paintings, sculpture, Works of Art
“As the years passed the layers of netting multiplied and she began to rely on a different kind of memory. The memory of things she knew but no longer saw.” Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Spent the day yesterday installing my exhibition Ebb & Flow at...
by Nanci Hersh | May 25, 2016 | Art Events, Koi Pond Series, Painting, Paintings, Works of Art
She was not sure what idea she wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon her took life within her like an infant hope. She stepped onward bravely. James Joyce. I took a little liberty with Joyce’s quote, making it gender...
by Nanci Hersh | May 17, 2016 | Inspiration, Koi Pond Series, Paintings
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. Jonathan Winters Often there seems to be a push/ pull in my psyche; Go for it vs. Allow life to happen. After my first cancer diagnosis in 2002, a good friend said that this was an opportunity to take time from my...
