NEW WEB SITE

My web site is finally on line.  It is an on line retrospective so it is filled with lots of art work that I have created over the years.  I would love to hear from you if you have any trouble navigating through the various parts, or if there are any spelling mistakes - my specialty.  Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Here is the link -  Nancy Herman Retrospective 

EASTER BUNNIES

EASTER BUNNIES

Nancy Herman

20" x 20"

signed limited edition giclee print on archival paper with archival ink

Stamps used in EASTER BUNNIES

At this rate I will never finish creating my new web site as when I go through different periods of my art work I get the urge to create another in the series.  So far I have made several more Pure Color pieces, 3 new stamps, and revised several poster collages.  I am having so much fun that I feel guilty.  Now what's that all about?

$250.00

FORSYTHIA 2011

Forsythia 2011

Nancy Herman

6" x 8"

oil on canvas board

I have been busy creating a new web site for the past two weeks, so have not been painting, but last year's Forsythia painting fits the moment perfectly.

I love Forsythia.  It is for me the real messenger of spring as it is so jolly in its thrusting glory.  I hold in deepest disregard those who turn their Forsythia bushes into crippled balls.  Every year I shudder past Merion Mercy Academy in the spring as they have a whole row of Forsythia hedge that could be a glory of spritely delight brightening Montgomery Avenue.  But no...they always trim the hedge so there is only a strangled few blooms.  It is as if the gardeners can't stand the exuberance.  Yet this has gone on for years, and gardeners come and go, so I can only conclude it is orders from above.  How far up I don't know.
SOLD
$150.00

New Stamp

JEWISH STARS

Nancy Herman

20" x 20"

Limited edition signed digital print on archival paper with archival inks

I have always enjoyed the beautiful lithography on old stamps.  A few years back I began collecting them and with the help of friends and sometimes just people I met on a train or airplane I amassed a huge collection of stamps of all kinds.  I then began sorting them out according to color and theme and created collages.
At the moment I am putting together a new web site that is really an on line retrospective.  When I came to the stamp page I decided to create two new stamps.  One in honor of Passover  "Jewish Stars".  Here it is with a link to the new page.  The stars are Raoul Wallenberg, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Golda Meir, Ben Gurion and Ann Frank. (Christmas is the other new stamp just to keep a balance in the stamp family)

$250.00

UNDER THE HIGHWAY

UNDER THE HIGHWAY

Nancy Herman

6" x 8"

oil on canvas board

The train has come to the end of the line and just as it is when I am really on the train I am more than ready to get off and begin the next adventure.   However, there is still the business of getting through the station and out into the world again.  In this case there is one more painting from the series.  By now the snow is melted and spring is here but on this canvas it still exists and I must deal with it.

At the time it was interesting to see little glimpses of nature through the bridge abutments.  Now I wish I could see the new life that has sprung up there or have a painting of daffodils to show.  And so it goes in life, our unfinshed business keeps us from the pleasures of the day.

But wait...  Here is last year's Daffodil which along with some other of my spring paintings can now be seen at Graver's Lane Gallery.

SNOW AND FENCE

SNOW AND FENCE

Nancy Herman

6" x 8"

oil on canvas board

Still on the train on a wintery day.  An old tin fence, some empty containers,  snow and a set of old train tracks create this compostion in shades of blue and brown.

$150.00

NIGHT SETS IN

NIGHT SETS IN

Nancy Herman

6" x 8"

oil on canvas board

Night from a railroad car window

Is a great, dark, soft thing

Broken across with slashes of light.

WINDOW by Carl Sandburg

$150.00

THE GREEN DOOR

THE GREEN DOOR

Nancy Herman

6" x 8"

oil on canvas board

From the train window I spy this green door with a car parked out front.  This combination stirs the imagination.  Who chooses pea green for their door?  Is the car visiting pea green door painter or does the driver live there?  What goes on behind the pea green door?

$150.00