Nancy Glazier

Nancy Glazier is passionate about her art and the subject of her art. This passion is evident in the way she paints and the way she lives - they are inseparable.

Surrounded by mountain beauty and the animals the artist loves to paint, Glazier says, "I feel a kinship with the animal that grows as the painting progresses. There is a powerful chemistry at work. People ask me, 'Which is your favorite animal to paint?' I can tell you it is always the very animal I am painting at the time." For Glazier, it is "Ša warm, living, breathing process that brings me back again and again to the easel. It is my ultimate reward."

Glazier knew she wanted to be an artist from early childhood. In her teens, she lived in Wyoming where she immersed herself in the rugged, western terrain. There she was mentored and taught by artist Adolph Spohr, who gave her private instruction and taught her how a professional uses paint and brush...how to observe and self-correct. The artist's style evolved over time. After seeing a dramatic photograph of a grizzly, she was awakened to a desire to paint animals "close up and hair-by-hair." The artist has taken hands-on anatomy classes that enable her to paint an amazingly accurate portrait of an animal from its bone structure to muscles to hair, bringing it life on her canvas.