Studio –   Wicomico County, Maryland

 About the Artist - Originally from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Nancy Mysak is a representational watercolorist. Painting in the woods, fields, near the rivers and the ocean, and in her studio in rural Wicomico County, Nancy interprets nature.  Working in watercolor and acrylic, her chosen media are watercolor and acrylic.

After studying art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., Nancy received her BS degree in Elementary Education from Salisbury University in 1972.  Since that time she has studied with locally and nationally known artists and taught children’s art classes in both public and private institutions.

The vibrancy of color and the way light affects color as it hits objects are what Nancy finds most intriguing.  Beauty and design as found in nature, whether it is seen in a vase of freshly cut flowers sitting in the sun or in the way shadows play on a cold, snowy ditch bank, are important in her compositions.  To capture that beautiful instant and save it keeps her exploring new ways to express her feelings through paint. Usually beginning a painting on location, she finishes it in the studio, where she can look at the painting as a design and evaluate it for good usage of color, value, and composition.

In 1992 Nancy received the Outstanding Arts Educator Award from the Maryland Alliance for Arts Education.  She is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Baltimore; a member of the Artists’ Co-op in Salisbury, Maryland; a member of the Talbot County Visual Arts Center, Easton, Maryland; a member of the Art League of Ocean City, Ocean City, Maryland and a member of the Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council.  In 2005 she won the Salisbury University Seagull Century Award for the design of the T-shirt art.  Nancy has been juried into shows at the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Salisbury, the Academy of the Arts in Easton, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition in Bethesda, the Michener Centennial Juried Art Show in Easton, and the Oxford Fine Arts Fair in Oxford, and has had numerous one and two person shows.  Her work has been shown at the Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C.  She is represented by many Galleries on and off the Delmarva Peninsula.

Artist Statement - “For as long as I can remember I have used whatever materials were available to make drawings, paintings, and sculptures.  Some of my early attempts were truly indescribable!  Bringing nature’s beauty, perfect and imperfect, into clear focus, to ponder and enjoy is my main purpose for painting”, states Mysak.  Her natural surroundings, friends, family, and ideas gathered from her travels all contribute to the moments of inspiration, which Nancy feels are essential to the creative process.