Nancy Larson is a watercolor and acrylic painter in Portland, Oregon.  She has a BA in studio art and spent a post graduate year at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Florence, Italy.  She has exhibited in both solo and group shows in Oregon, California, Washington, and Italy.  Having called Oregon home since 1995, she draws inspiration from the beauty that is literally outside her door.  When not in her home studio, she can be found reading, gardening, and spending time with her family of three teenagers and a patient husband.