Nanci Blair Clossoms Signed Original Art Watercolor Abstract Browns Beige Framed

Nanci Blair Clossoms Signed Original Art Watercolor Abstract Browns Beige Framed

Nanci Blair Clossoms Signed Original Art Watercolor Abstract Browns Beige Framed

Beautifully framed and double matted:

Silver frame 15 1/4″ x 20 1/2″ x 1″

Matting 3″ Silver……1/4″ Beige

Image:  13 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ 

Stunning piece….

The artist:

Nanci Blair Closson has a constant need for challenge and experimentation.  As a result, she is always searching for new means of expressing herself through her art. Although she is best-known as an abstract watercolorist, Closson states that she has “a strong urge to break away from the two-dimensional, with a combination of materials–wood, clay, papers, material–and go beyond the illusion of three dimensions on a flat surface.”  She is now somewhere in between, she says, with constructions that are often raised and layered.

Called “layered watercolors,” Closson’s works make use of rag mattboard and torn papers to create landscapes.  She first paints the various pieces, then shapes them, and finally applies them–using collage techniques–to form patterned three-dimensional.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, Closson grew up on a farm in Indiana.  Because hers was a fairly isolated childhood, Closson used her imagination to occupy her time, gathering anything she could find–burlap feedsacks, chicken feathers, stones, and tomato stakes–as artist’s tools. “I arranged, rearranged, created, and recreated various environments in the chicken coop, the cornshed, barn, and hay loft,” she recalls.  When playing Tarzan, she colored on sheets to simulate leopard and tiger skins, draped them around herself and, armed with a whittled bean pole spear, wandered barefoot to the jungle woods.

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