Paintings by Nancy Pierson on View at Bernardsville Library in January

Bernardsville Public Library is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Nancy Pierson during the month of January. The show will be on view January 4-30, 2016.

A resident of Bernardsville, Ms. Pierson’s lifelong love of painting and appreciation of art began with a childhood interest in drawing. It grew to include a fascination with color, design and texture. She has a special interest in painting people and trying to capture the essence of an interesting person.

Ms. Pierson started painting in the 1960s (while raising 5 daughters) when she studied pastel portraiture with Margaret Yard Tyler in Montclair, NJ. She enjoyed painting her children and those of friends and moved into commission work. In the 1970s, she ventured into New York City to study with artists such as Marshall Glazier, Tom Fogarty and Robert Cenadella at the Art Students League. She also studied watercolor portraiture with Burt Silverman (of New Yorker fame) and then spent two years at FIT studying fashion illustration and drawing.

“Now I have time to spend summers in Vermont where I have a studio,” she says, “I have shown at the Southern Vermont Art Association in Manchester, the Pawlet, Vermont annual art show, and at the Unitarian Church in Summit, NJ.

This exhibition will be on view in the library’s Community Room during regular library hours unless a meeting is in progress. For further information, please call the library at 908-766-0118.