| Nancy M. Hawkins |
Nancy M. Hawkins is a self-taught artist offering fine art, portraiture, and commissioned
works. Painting primarily in acrylic, and drawing in pen and pencil, her subjects include all
domestic animals, wildlife and sporting art, landscapes, and the human form. She offers
limited and open edition prints of her work.
She studies and is influenced by the work: of Maxfield Parrish and Jan Van Eyck for their
uses of glazes and light refraction, Johannes Vermeer's jewel-like representations of light
and composition, Michelangelo da Caravaggio's honest detail and strength in contrasting light,
John Singer Sargent's subtlety and nuance, George Stubbs' revolutionary realistic
depictions, and finally Chinese and Korean painting and Japanese prints for their elegant
compositional simplicity. All were possessed of superb observational abilities, devoted
students of their subjects, as well as being students and masters of their media.
Born in Muskegon Michigan in 1956, Nancy has been making art all her life. She has also had
an intense involvement with animals since childhood. At fourteen she sold her first
commissioned work. She has been a riding instructor and horse trainer since age eighteen,
with a strong grounding and commitment to classical techniques she applies to Dressage and
Combined Driving. During the 1980's she was a breeder of Westphalen Sport Horses, as well
as selling her art privately and through shows.
In 1990 she spent six months in Germany training horses with Col. K. Albrecht von Ziegner
and illustrated his two books: "The Basics" and "The Elements of Dressage". From Germany
she went to Ireland. It was her first vacation in twenty years and grew to three and a half
years. In Ireland she practiced her same mixed profession. Living in Counties Galway and
Mayo, she traveled much of the country. Nancy's work was represented in a number of
galleries. She has work is in the US, Mexico, Germany, England, Ireland, Australia, and
elsewhere. Nancy taught art in Galway town.
She returned to the US in 1994. Since then she continues in art and horses, considering
herself fortunate in the extreme to be able to what she has always done. Nancy still teaches
art, and continues to illustrate with Beth Markham's book "The Friesian Keurung" and other
projects. Presently she is a member of Wisconsin Regional Artist's Association, the Equine
Art Guild, and the Janesville Art League.
works. Painting primarily in acrylic, and drawing in pen and pencil, her subjects include all
domestic animals, wildlife and sporting art, landscapes, and the human form. She offers
limited and open edition prints of her work.
She studies and is influenced by the work: of Maxfield Parrish and Jan Van Eyck for their
uses of glazes and light refraction, Johannes Vermeer's jewel-like representations of light
and composition, Michelangelo da Caravaggio's honest detail and strength in contrasting light,
John Singer Sargent's subtlety and nuance, George Stubbs' revolutionary realistic
depictions, and finally Chinese and Korean painting and Japanese prints for their elegant
compositional simplicity. All were possessed of superb observational abilities, devoted
students of their subjects, as well as being students and masters of their media.
Born in Muskegon Michigan in 1956, Nancy has been making art all her life. She has also had
an intense involvement with animals since childhood. At fourteen she sold her first
commissioned work. She has been a riding instructor and horse trainer since age eighteen,
with a strong grounding and commitment to classical techniques she applies to Dressage and
Combined Driving. During the 1980's she was a breeder of Westphalen Sport Horses, as well
as selling her art privately and through shows.
In 1990 she spent six months in Germany training horses with Col. K. Albrecht von Ziegner
and illustrated his two books: "The Basics" and "The Elements of Dressage". From Germany
she went to Ireland. It was her first vacation in twenty years and grew to three and a half
years. In Ireland she practiced her same mixed profession. Living in Counties Galway and
Mayo, she traveled much of the country. Nancy's work was represented in a number of
galleries. She has work is in the US, Mexico, Germany, England, Ireland, Australia, and
elsewhere. Nancy taught art in Galway town.
She returned to the US in 1994. Since then she continues in art and horses, considering
herself fortunate in the extreme to be able to what she has always done. Nancy still teaches
art, and continues to illustrate with Beth Markham's book "The Friesian Keurung" and other
projects. Presently she is a member of Wisconsin Regional Artist's Association, the Equine
Art Guild, and the Janesville Art League.
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