Nancy Larson is a watercolor and acrylic painter, born in California yet has spent the majority of her life in the Pacific Northwest. She has a BA in studio art and spent a post graduate year at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Florence, Italy. She lives with her three teenagers and wickedly smart partner in Portland, Oregon, where her home studio is cramped but it's just fine for now, thank you very much. She has exhibited in both solo and group shows in Oregon, California, and Italy.
My current work is focused on what can be called interior landscapes: The places that emerge when memories and materials are given free rein. These landscapes are born out of an intuitive practice and are not from life or photography, rather the materials lead the exploration process while a subconscious memory undercurrent nudges lines and forms in a direction that ultimately or usually leads to a landscape. The realization that it’s a place once experienced comes only after the painting is finished. I hope these explorations into the blurry land of memory resonate with viewers, inviting them into a place that might feel unfamiliar yet oddly like home.