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Nancy Parsons, an artist of many styles.
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Since early childhood, Nancy Parson’s first passion has been art. She has spent many years juggling her love for painting with the demands of a full-time career in graphic design. Nancy has spent the past 25 years as owner, art director/designer and manager of Graphic Design Group in Conroe, Texas.
Many of Nancy’s logo designs have become icons for local government and private industries, such as; Montgomery County, Conroe Chamber of Commerce, City of Conroe, Lake Conroe Chamber of Commerce, Conroe Beautification Committee, Montgomery County Performing Arts Society, M.C. Literary Arts Council, Conroe Regional Medical Center, Tomball Chamber of Commerce, as well as logo designs for numerous Surgery Centers around the country.
Her awards include: Award of Merit from International Design Conference (Aspen, Colorado), four Telstar Art Awards for Excellence in Communications, six Catalyst Awards, the Texas Alliance for Education Arts Award, and winner of the Texas Fine Art Association: Juried Texas Realism Competition. Her still life: London Flat was selected by Tom Livesay (Director Dallas Museum of Art) for the T.F.A.A. State of Texas Tour.
Nancy’s education includes: SMU Edwin Cox School of Business certification, Watercolor with Perry House at the Glassell Museum of Fine Arts School (Houston), Commercial Art at Meremac College (St. Louis), Fine Art & Literature at Metropolitan State College (Denver), a degree in Advertising Design at the Art Institute of Houston, and Oil Painting with Carlos Landa at Montgomery College.
In regard to her latest series of large abstract oil paintings Nancy says, "Unlike words, my digs into the opposing vertical-realm of polarities are tunnels of mind shafts that gasp along from air pocket to air pocket into dark expanses of subterranean landscapes where, we gather to drink from the same well."
Her wildly diverse styles and mediums range from earlier explorations of loose fluid flowers that seemed to paint themselves in puddles of watercolor, to polar opposite extremes of photo realistic Prisma Color illustrative renderings. This opposing fascination with detail is evidenced in her Endangered Animal /series. Nancy has also found large gregarious abstracts emerging from deep buried traumas, allowing for the expression in paint of the terrifyingly ineffable.
She has a fascination with the role color plays in the dance of light and shadow that she sees and feels in the world around her. Nancy’s intent is to grab the viewer’s eye to connect on a subconscious level through the use of bold complimentary color schemes played out in quick loose application of oil paint. Her goal is not to portray a reproduction of what the eye alone sees and expects to find, but rather to capture the ever present spirit.
Private collections of her paintings may be found in Dallas, St. Croix, and Houston.
Nancy Parson’s is a member of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston and Conroe Art League. Her work can be seen at Linda Watson Gallery, Conroe.
For more information on Nancy Parson’s art see artpickle.com and Saatchi Gallery
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