Nancy Miller

For 30 years I was a three dimensional artist creating sculptures with gourds. In 2022, at age 80, I joined a small group of artists at my sweetheart’s senior living facility. I decided to try painting. I began with watercolor, added colored pencils, and progressed to creating mixed-media collage. I sometimes use bits of images in magazines, and I create my own papers mostly using acrylic paint on various types of “tissue “ paper. 

I do abstracts because I love color and composition…and I don’t draw all that well. The works I create “become” as I play. I usually have a color palette in mind, and lots of materials at hand. One thing I really love about this style of art is that each person who sees it imagines something different. My creations are a two-way street, and are truly not finished until that interaction takes place!

Being an artist is not something you can force. Finding your “voice” is not something that one conjures up out of the ether. Knowing you are an artist is a sensation; a way of being on this earth that is clear, profound, and always with you.