Nancy Schroeder @ artavita

Nancy Schroeder

I call Massachusetts my first home, but for most of my adult life I have been transplanted all over the United States until I moved to St. Louis, Missouri 12 years ago and now call it home.

I started working with Oil Paintsticks in 2000, I also had a career change, and began working in the world of flowers. I combined both forms of art, in 2007 when I painted "Frozen Rose". Working intimately with flowers almost every day gave me a true in depth sense of what I finally decided to make my primary focus. I began to painting my impressions of the structural look at flowers in 2008, turning traditional still life florals, inside-out.

I currently teach workshops on Oil Paintsticks and am a member of Art St. Louis, Projekt 30, Northern Arts Council and World Art Foundation.

There will always be a flower blooming and a flower for any occasion. It's just about exposing them for what they really are..?

Portfolio:

2011

For me,

flowers are nature's masterpiece.

Each flower has a grandeur both inside and out. A perfect display of color and delicate form outside. Yet when viewed from the inside out, a strength from an equally stunning structure.

I am fascinated by the structure of flowers and the effects light has through them. Tucked deep inside is the true beauty. I'll never run out of flowers or blossoms, as they're limitless in nature. I focus on individual blossoms of any flower.

I started working with Oil Paintsticks in 2000, just before I had a career change and went into the world of flowers. I developed a unique understanding with flowers on a structural level. My still-life works are directly related to the physical capabilities of floral art, combining trends and color. I began painting flowers in 2007 with "Frozen Rose".

I've been painting with Oil Paintsticks because of the versatility as a medium and that it never slows me down. In 2009, I developed a technique using artist's ground for pastels. that allows me to shape or sculpt, then paint.

Currently, my work is 5 studies of superimpositions in the beauty of floral structure. The variety of color in a simple monochromatic is often the result of very fine layers, of a single paintstick with some use of a colorless blender.

Black and white. A simple exposure with a modern edge using sculpted artist's ground to add dimension.

Monochromatic and colour shaping to carve out the paint for texturizing structure.

Analogous harmony of floral structure.

Density in the delicate form of the flower.

Sheer illumination. A combination of analogous harmony and iridescent paintstiks. This combination allows you to see all the way through the flower as though you were holding it up to the sunlight.
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Next time you pick up a flower, close your eyes and run your fingers over it. Feel the density and texture. My art is a visual impression of what you are feeling.

There will always be a flower blooming
and a flower for any occasion.

It's just about exposing them,

for what they really are.

Nancy Schroeder 2011?

“Matrimony Vine IX”