Nancy Stanchfield

I was just five when Dad painted our kitchen ceiling that glossy peach, the color of a robin’s breast.  I can still remember how warm and happy it made me feel inside.  Glowing nightly above our family’s kitchen table, the painted ceiling lured my innocent eyes upward and more than once, so immersed in the beauty, I actually tumbled backwards off my stool.  To this day that color still seduces me with its inviting glow.  Today my painted ceiling,  Painted Ceiling Studio is my art studio, my haven for inspiration and creativity.

Acrylic paints are my medium of choice.  The bulk of my work is done in mixed media in which I layer strong acrylic pigments with collected papers, heavy glazes and charcoal pencil markings. I enjoy the dimensions of depth, pattern and texture that the collaging brings to my art.  I also find that more often than not, I put down my brush or palate knife and use my fingers to be more intimately in touch with the paints.  Foremost in my thought while making art is a sense of spontaneity, imagination and joy.

While I have a great affinity for architectural elements, be it the imposing façade of a building, the sensuous curve of a chair leg, or the graceful arch of a flower stem, they assume minor importance in my art, becoming mere vehicles through which to communicate an atmosphere, a pervading mood or spirit.

Playfully abstracting these architectural forms, I create interior and exterior spaces.   Using the inanimate to comment on life, my chairs, buildings and florals mimic the human situation, taking on personalities, energies and moods, atmospheres teeming with humanness frivolity and the patina of life.

Nancy Stanchfield
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