Inspiration Close at Hand

Artists' Gardens - Nancy Paris Pruden

Front Yard Garden 8 x 10” Plein Air Oil © Nancy Paris Pruden

In response to our Perspectives “Inspiration Close at Hand” call for paintings created in artists’ gardens or other personal spaces, we received these two images from artist, Nancy Paris Pruden. Although inspiration can be found far and wide, many of us have found “diamonds in own backyard”, especially throughout the confinement of the pandemic. There can be great creative benefits to painting a more intimate and personal world throughout the changes of light and season.

Pruden writes about Front Yard Garden (above) “The garden is such a riot of color and shapes it was difficult to organize a composition until I decided to make one dominant flower up close and big. That way I could believably vary shapes to get a natural focus.”

English Garden 9 x 12” Plein Air Oil © Nancy Paris Pruden