Original oil painting on palette, real artist wood palette. I use it until it has too much paint. I hold a BFA in design from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MA & MFA in painting from Fontbonne University.
Three large, stylized blooms occupy the upper two-thirds of the canvas, their petals rendered with energetic, gestural brushstrokes and thick impasto that create strong highlights and textured ridges.
A nest with an egg and a feather symbolize the ‘nest egg’. Nancy Van Ness Art. In this busy world painting calms my mind and brings peace to my soul. I feel as if I soak up information and transfer to the canvas through paint.