Nancy Egan has been an artist since childhood, selling her first painting at 15 and winning awards in high school. Her early years she was taught and inspired by her father a Yale graduate artist. Seeking to be a scientific artist she received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management. Skilled in many dimensions of art she has developed a deep appreciation of impressionist “plein-air” painting reflecting her training with renowned artist M. Obermeyer, R. Roberts and K. Auster. She has taught oil painting classes for the last 9 years and continues to win awards.Landscape and spiritual images are currently her subject of choice. Her art is very personnal; it is her ministry to bring the Divine to the human world, stirring emotions to raise the human world to God. Nancy maintains her studio in San Clemente CA
Member of
California Art Club
Oil Painters of America
Laguna Plein Air Painters LPAPA
Southern CA Plein Air Painters
San Clemente Art Association
Galleries
Studio 7 - Laguna Beach, CA
Mission Fine Art Gallery - San Juan Capistrano, CA
PS Gallery - Litchfield, CT
Affaire de Coeur, Orange, CA
Art n Frame - San Clemente, CA
Major Exhibitions/Special Recognitions/Awards
2009 La Jolla Art Festival
2009 Orange County Register- Citizen of the week (Feb 21)
2009 Mission San Juan Capistrano CA – Art Exhibit
2008 Orange Coast Magazine Artist of the month, CA
2008 Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA - 4 Women art exhibit- Belle’s of Capistrano
2008 Sawdust Festival Laguna Beach, CA
2006 First Place Paint San Clemente Plein Air Competition, San Clemente, CA
2005 Jury’s Top 20 Bower’s Museum, Santa Ana CA
2005 Third Place– Quick DrawPaint San Clemente, San Clemente, CA
2005 Peoples Choice Award San Clemente Art Club Winter
2003 First Place- How Original Gallery, Laguna Beach, Winter
2002 Third Place San Clemente Plein Air San Clemente CA
1994 – 2002 Art Director/Instructor – Our Lady of Fatima School,
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