Showing posts with label Spotlight Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spotlight Artist. Show all posts

Friday, April 7, 2023

Post 330: Spotlight on PWAS Artist Nicole Fisher

Spotlight on PWAS Artist Nicole Fisher

The Artistry Spin Blog has started a series for Prince William Art Society (PWAS) members called "Spotlight Artists", where those artists that want to be featured will submit a prearranged template for posting here and spread on our PWAS social media sites.

Let's get know know...

Nicole Fisher

Date: April 1, 2023

Artist Style: abstract expressionism

Artist Mediums: acrylic, fluid acrylic, acrylic ink

Artist Bio:

Nicole M Fisher is an abstract painter who lives and works in Virginia. Art has always been in her blood. From an early age she showed an interest in art and in particular painting. Her father built her first easel as a teenager. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she spent much of her time attending art classes, learning the history, theory, and techniques of painting at Germantown Friends School, Moore College of Art, Drexel University, and Chestnut Hill College.

Nicole’s palettes are inspired by life. The colors of nature… the ocean, birds, flowers and plants are huge influences on her color choices. Other color influences include an elegantly designed room, the colors of our emotions, and the music that commits memories into our minds and sparks our hearts to feel. Often a photograph or a song will spark her mood. Or she’ll see a color palette in nature that she just can’t resist! Nicole’s paintings are very intuitive. She doesn’t plan her end composition ahead of time. Nicole allows the paintings to unfold as they see fit. Shapes and texture help to create the composition of her paintings. Nicole has always been intrigued by geometry. This is reflected in her use of bold lines and shapes in many of her paintings. Nicole’s paintings are layered gems. Using palette knives, brushes in varied sizes, scrapers, and many other found objects she adds texture and depth to the layers of her paintings. Fluid acrylic paint and acrylic inks are often used to add a bit of softness and playfulness to balance out the bold geometric shapes that are prevalent in her pieces.

Artist PWAS Member Since: 

March 2023 

Artist URL: 

https://www.NicoleMFisherArt.com

Artist Social Media: 

 

Artist Contact:  

NicoleMFisherArt@gmail.com




Author/Photographer/Artist: Nicole Fisher
 
Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

Friday, March 31, 2023

Post 323: Spotlight on PWAS Artist Donna Liguria

Spotlight on PWAS Artist Donna Liguria

The Artistry Spin Blog is starting a series for Prince William Art Society (PWAS) members called "Spotlight Artists", where those artists that want to be featured will submit a prearranged template for posting here and spread on our PWAS social media sites.

Our first featured Prince William Art Society member artist...

PWAS Spotlight Artist Donna Liguria

Date: 3/28/2023

Artist Style: Photorealism

Artist Mediums: Mainly Acrylic

Artist Bio:

A native Virginian, born in Alexandria and wandering through Central Virginia before moving back to Northern Virginia - Woodbridge in 2007, Donna Liguria has always been a dabbling artist and painter, working mainly with acrylics on canvas. Her style is typically ‘painted realism’ rendering landscapes, seascapes, animals and pets, and wonderful places to be and see. She often gets comments, “is it a photo or a painting?”

Her life-long art experiences included a previous paint business, called WallDreams where she painted murals on walls in restaurants and homes around Virginia. Previous “non-art” work also included owning several restaurant businesses in Charlottesville and Louisa, Virginia, and more recently working for a Northern Virginia IT company at Tyson's Corner.

Now semi-retired, Donna is mostly self-taught. She is inspired by beautiful colors, textures, sun light, and shadows with a passion to applying the captured vision to canvas, with the thought to “painting it as real as it can be”. She has a love of painting water, beaches and historical Virginia locations.

Donna is also a member of the Manassas Art Guild (MAG) and looks forward to appearing in local art shows coming up at Open Space Arts, Occoquan Arts and Crafts, Art at the Mill, Tall Oaks Community Center, Arts Alive, and more. Donna is also the main writer for the PWAS Blog Artistry Spin as well as her own Blog.

Artist’s Awards:

2023 Jan Tie for Third Place at Open Space Arts,  “Only God Can Make a Tree”

2022 October First Place Paint Manassas for “Sunrise at Historic Manassas Train Station”

2021 December Tie for Second Place Open Space Arts Christmas Show for “Mountain Path”

Artist PWAS Member Since:

March 2021

Artist’s URL:

https://donnaliguriaart.com

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DonnaLiguriaArt

https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/  

https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/donna-liguria  

Artist’s Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/donna.liguria

https://twitter.com/DonnaLiguria

https://www.instagram.com/donnaliguriaart/

https://www.pinterest.com/donnaliguria/

Artist’s Contact:

Donna.Liguria AT Outlook DOT com


 

 

Author/Photographer/Artist: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Need an Etsy Shop? https://etsy.me/3Mi56GM
 
Photography/Video Credits:
Donna Liguria

Local Art: Visit us at Stonebridge Open Space Arts at 15000 #140 Potomac Town Center, Woodbridge, VA - Open Wed to Sat 12-7 and Sun 12-5
The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to know how to get involved at OSA? If you are an artist (18 or older) living in Prince William County, or a are a member of a PWC art group, you are welcome to get on our next art show's emailing list. Send it to us, OR come by the gallery to find out more.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!