2018
Nancy Eckels became a full-time artist only after ending another creative career. She moved to California to attend college, and happily worked in television for many years. She was a director on the CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful when she decided to move on to full-time painting. Given her family background, it seemed like the most natural transition she could make.
Nancy was born in Kingston, New York, but moved to Utah at age 7 when her father was transferred for his work. With her family, she spent her summers exploring many of the national parks and natural wonders of the West, where her father loved to fish and photograph. He instilled in her a love and appreciation for the beauty and colors of nature, while her mother taught her many of the lessons of art.
Nancy gained quite an art education through "osmosis" while being around talented family members. She has learned much from working with several experimental abstract painters, including Katherine Chang Liu, Carole Barnes, and Pat Dews.
Over the past 18 years Nancy’s work has been placed in homes and businesses across the country. Before she gave up the traveling life, she participated for multiple years in several of the top juried art shows in the United States, including the La Quinta Arts Festival in the California desert and the annual show at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in Arizona.
Nancy’s mission continues — that is to continue to create special paintings that speak to her and her collectors. And she will keep applying paint to every canvas with that in mind!
Nancy will be painting as long as she can hold a brush. It's a passion that will not be lost to retirement. She lives with her husband in Canyon Country, California.
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(Biography provided by Pacific Edge Gallery)
"Sea Splash" Mixed Media abstract with textural greens, blues, lavender and tans
By Nancy Eckels
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Sea Splash," which exhibits the bold colors and textures that her work is known for, is a beautiful large abstract painting on box canvas by Nancy Eckels. Using sculptural texture...
Acrylic, Other Medium
"Earth and Fire" Mixed Media abstract with textural greens, aqua and orange
By Nancy Eckels
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Earth and Fire" is a beautiful abstract painting by Nancy Eckels. It exhibits the bold colors and textures that her work is known for. Using sculptural texture with beautiful greens, aqua, and orange contrasted with flowing textures of orange and yellow highlights, this painting creates both a peaceful and dynamic mood. Nancy became a full time artist only after ending another creative career. She moved to California to attend college, and happily worked in television for many years. She was a director on the CBS daytime drama, "The Bold and the Beautiful" when she decided to move on to full time painting. Given her family background, it seemed like the most natural transition she could make. Nancy was born in Kingston, New York, but moved to Utah at age 7 when her father was transferred for his work. With her family, she spent her summers exploring many of the national parks, and natural wonders of the west where her father loved to fish and photograph. He instilled in her a love and appreciation for the beauty and colors of nature, while her mother taught her many of the lessons of art. Nancy gained quite an art education through "osmosis" while being around talented family members. She has learned much from working with several experimental abstract painters, including Katherine Chang Liu, Carole Barnes...
Acrylic, Other Medium
"Blue Trickle" Mixed Media with textural orange, green, blue and grays
By Nancy Eckels
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Blue Trickle" is a beautiful luminous large abstract painting by Nancy Eckels. It exhibits the bold colors and textures that her work is known for. Using sculptural texture with be...
Acrylic, Other Medium
"Seaside Sunset" Mixed Media abstract with textural greens, blues, reds, gold
By Nancy Eckels
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Exhibiting the bold colors and textures that her work is known for, "Seaside Sunset" is a beautiful abstract painting by Nancy Eckels. Using sculptural texture with beautiful sea g...
Acrylic, Other Medium
"Seaside Glimmer" Mixed Media abstract with textural greens and blues
By Nancy Eckels
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Exhibiting the bold colors and textures that her work is known for, "Seaside Glimmer" is a beautiful abstract painting by Nancy Eckels. Using sculptural texture with beautiful sea ...
Acrylic, Other Medium
"Shore Break" mixed media abstract w/ textural blues, lavender, and orange
By Nancy Eckels
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Shore Break" is a beautiful large luminous abstract painting by Nancy Eckels. It exhibits the bold colors and textures that her work is known for, featuring textural blues, tan, l...
Acrylic, Other Medium
L'ACQUA / THE SEA at CINQUE TERRA (Blue Green Yellow Orange Abstract Encaustic)
By Susan E. Squires
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
For many years Susan Squires goal has been to create encaustic paintings as meaningful, evocative experiences for herself and for the viewer. She wa...
Oil Crayon, Encaustic, Board
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (texture, organic, biophilic, teal)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (vertical) is a richly textured mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger, part of her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Sate...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
'Summer Oracle' - colorful abstract painting, layered, impasto, blue
By Khalilah Birdsong
Located in Atlanta, GA
This textured abstract painting features blue, red, orange and black. Khalilah is inspired by the works of Jack Whitten, Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Ed Clark, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Beach Walk #2" Abstraction in blues, greens, chartreuse and orange
By Susan Sharp
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Beach Walk #2," Watercolor on Paper, 22x 30 Inches. Abstraction in blues, orange, chartreuse and yellow green. This work can be read as a pure abstraction or references to an und...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
