Nancy Parkinson Bruce an award-winning artist Carlsbad resident regularly shows at the COAL. Ms. Bruce considers herself to be very fortunate having spent most of her life surrounded by beauty. Born and raised in Colorado, she also spent several years in Utah and Alaska before finally moving to Southern California, where she began her 28-year career of teaching art and photography to junior and senior high school kids.
She is a graduate from Colorado University at Boulder with a degree in Art, and also holds a Master’s Degree from San Diego State University. She has also continued honing her talents through years of teaching, practice, workshops and courses at the college level. She has studied with well-known artists including Tony Richards for printmaking, the nationally renowned watercolor artist, Zoltan Szabo, as well as abstract artists including Risë Parberry and Pat Dew, among others.
As an artist, she has been on a journey exploring different mediums, her most recent being abstract paintings in acrylic. Prior to this obsession with acrylics, Ms. Bruce worked in watercolor and continues to share her passion for watercolor through teaching at the Carlsbad Senior Center. For many years, while painting with watercolors, Ms. Bruce also learned the ancient craft of printmaking. This process involves etching a picture from a metal plate. Intricate designs are literally carved out of the metal surface and bathed in acid to create what will eventually become a textured plate used in a special hand-turned printing press; each layer of color is printed separately.
Stop by and visit Nancy Parkinson Bruce and her exhibiton through the month of June 2011.
