Flower and Landscape watercolor and oil paintings
At the First Parish Art Gallery, January 9, 2004 – February 27, 2004

Nancy Woodland French is an Artist who expresses herself in oil, watercolor and print making. Each medium enables her to explore themes, develop new ideas, and create different compositions. As an avid gardener, Nancy's love of flowers and landscapes reflect in her artwork.

Nancy feels that : "To see things truly, I have to paint them. This process of looking, contemplating, developing the large masses, overlapping shapes and textures, enables me to find the abstract quality in what is before me. Slowly, I discover with many layers of paint, the real essence of what first engaged my curiosity. Eventually, the painting takes its own reality and matures into focus."

Nancy received the "Fine Arts Award" for work she exhibited in the Spring '98 Awards Show of the Weston MA Arts Association. Nancy graduated summa cum laude from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA with a bachelors degree in fine arts. She has exhibited in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey. She has belonged to the Brooklyn Watercolor Society, the Salamagundi Club and the Staten Island Art Society. Her paintings are in the collections of many banks, nursing homes, restaurants and hospitals in the New York/New Jersey area. She is still represented on Staten Island by Terry Vanderbilt Fine Art Gallery and Mauro Graphics. Nancy was a watercolor instructor on the faculty of the Art Lab at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island and she taught watercolor for many years in Holmdel, New Jersey. Nancy frequently leads watercolor workshops and she now teaches watercolor classes for the Weston Recreation Department.

Nancy recently moved to Lincoln, MA, where she lives with her husband, Peter, and works in her studio. 117 South Great Road, Lincoln, MA 01773.