Portrait of Nancy Keene Fishel
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Nancy Keene Fishel

Design / Digital, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Visual / Media

Many of my recent artworks are based on observations of people both at home and abroad. The dynamism of human movement, passing of time, the energy of our ever-changing lives and interaction of people are a focus of these paintings. Dance, play, music, walking, running, cycling, becoming lost in a crowd and being alone, all are inspirations for my work. Life, time and people do not stand still, and I strive to capture those moments in time.

About the Artist

Nancy Keene Fishel is a visual artist working in a variety of media including, but not limited to, digital painting, oil painting, drawing, and printmaking. Images for her work are drawn from her travels and daily life, often documenting the movement of people through environments as they travel through space and time. She is an active member of a number of local arts organizations, and has won numerous awards in recognition of her work. Previously, Nancy taught. art to K-12 students in Baltimore County Public Schools and Arts Integration at Towson University.  As an active docent at the Baltimore Museum of Art, she stays abreast of current art trends and is privileged to share her love of art with others.  

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Artist's Statement

Much of my work is in series, sometimes starting with a digital painting and interpreting images into paint and prints. I begin with photos from my personal travels and experiences and layer multiple images to create a digital painting. I then lift visual sections of the digital painting and break up the images into multiple panels that are presented as individual images or multi-sectioned compositions.

Featured Work

Photos

This diptych painting combines images of pedestrians in NYC with images of plants I observed during my daily walks during the beginning of the pandemic. It is a reflection of how growth continues, nature preservers, even when people are not easily able to be together in public.
Triptych of varying sized canvases joined together to make an image reflecting the movement of dogs and their humans walking through space and time.
This painting is inspired by a trip to an exhibit of Gees Bend quilts, where my granddaughter got so excited with the graphic images, she began to dance in the gallery. This is one in a series based on that moment. This painting, along with the others in the series were originally planed by painting and photographing the quilt designs and then importing those images into Procreate on my iPad and superimposing a digital painting of dancing children onto the quilt designs.
This is a block print created from 2 different block printed on fadeless paper that has been prepared with found object object prints and swooping brush strokes. As with many of my other prints, this is one in a series, created from choosing from 4 different printing blocks and arranging each composition separately. The images for the blocks were created by interpreting an original digital painting of the same name into prints.
Multi image block print with four printing plates combined into a unique image. This was interpreted into a print from a digital painting of the same name.
This is a digital painting from my Museum series, that documents the reactions and movements of visitors in museums around the world. This digital painting is from a visit to the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart Australia.