Nancy Chambers

Nancy began exhibiting in 2019 and within a year was invited to exhibit alongside some of the UK's most accomplished artists including 5 Turner Prize winners and 3 of her personal art heroes Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry and Maggi Hambling.

Nancy's artistic endeavours began at an early age and she painted throughout a 30 year career in the charity sector before becoming a professional artist.

She has been delighted that her paintings have received wide appreciation and now hang in homes as far afield as New York, Jerusalem and Melbourne.

Nancy's aim to capture an essence rather than a literal interpretation of each subject. She enjoys not just the colour but the textural quality of paint and works with both to achieve the finished painting. With a dandelion, for instance, she paints with needles to capture their distinctive petals and her poppy paintings she creates her own ‘palette knives’ from recycled plastic.

Nancy has also become known for her interpretative seascapes, landscapes and abstract works, usually working in acrylics but with some collage and mixed media. Indeed many of her recent commissions have been for large, expansive seascapes as well as for the ever popular poppies and roses. 

Nancy's small fruit paintings developed during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, when art supplies were limited. Working on small canvases instead of her usual large boards evolved into a series of dark fruit paintings which focused on light and colour. 

The common thread in the subject matter is her love of nature, inspired by trips around the coast of south west England and time spent growing plants in her small city garden.