Nancee Brown | STUDIO 506

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Born in Brooklyn New York, Nancee started college studying fine art only to change to interior design for what was a more reliably profitable career. Having run her own business for 30 years, she found the skills of interior design, working with colour, textures and proportions, very translatable to the world of art. Her style is bold with assured gestural marks and a strong sense of colour balance. 

Having married an Englishman many years ago, Nancee has split her time living in New York, London and San Francisco. Along the way Nancee always took art classes and studied at the Art Students League in New York as well as the Visual Arts Center in Summit New Jersey. Focusing on portraits and landscapes in both oils and pastels she further fine tuned her skills with the Portrait Diploma course at Heatherleys School of Fine Art in London, graduating in 2021.

“For me art is about capturing a moment - whether that moment is expressing the essence of a persons face or a ray of light glistening off the water - it needs to be described as a gesture, as a moment. I want people to stop, notice and feel the emotion that caused me to paint the image in the first place.  I find that no matter the subject, the challenges are the same - drawing the image with the right proportions and composition, determining the ideal colour palette and interpreting the mood of the image. I love getting engrossed in the process of searching for the right solution as every painting is a journey.” 

Exhibitions

Art Students League, New York, 2017

Heatherleys portrait Diploma, year 1 & 2, 2020, 2021

Parallax October 2022