Nancy Pickard
Fine Artist & Jeweller
- Born
1963 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Educated
at Herm Island School, Channel Islands
- The
Ladies’ College, Guernsey,
- Central
school of Art, London and
- Cardiff
Art College.
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- Although
she always drew and painted as a child, Nancy studied ceramics for the main
part of her degree at art college.
She worked as a community artist and part-time art lecturer whilst showing
her ceramics nationally between 1986 and 1993: even having a solo show of
her work at Contemporary Ceramics in London.
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- After
the birth of her two children, continuing with ceramics had to be abandoned
for a while: how do you manage a 9 hour firing with toddlers around? After
some years of experimentation with drawing and computer based arts,
concurrently with her role as co-ordinator of Women’s Arts Wales, a
community arts charity in Cardiff, she moved to Cornwall in the hope of
getting back to making her own work.
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- Nancy
Pickard now lives and works in St Just, Britain’s most westerly town,
perched on the cliffs between St Ives and Penzance, the rugged and unspoilt
scenery has had a huge effect on her drawing and painting – but she has
also developed a new interest in art jewellery: Nancy’s preoccupation with
shapes, colour and texture has re-invented its self in enamelled copper and
silver jewellery. The work is
fired in a small kiln at 800 degrees centigrade – now firings last only
two minutes!
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- Nancy
enjoys combining different materials such as natural stones, shells and
metals to make really unusual pieces which are now exhibited all over the UK
and abroad. Themes from her paintings: shapes, rhythms and colour schemes,
can be seen again in her unique jewellery and she often exhibits the two
together so that the relationship can be seen.
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