Nan Rumpf, Painting

First Name: 
Nan
Last Name: 
Rumpf
Media: 
Painting, Printmaking, and Drawing
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The process of painting is what most fascinates me. I like to see how watercolors and other water media react to different painting surfaces and interact with each other. Does the surface affect the edges of a puddle … the flow of the paint … the granulation? Does acrylic paint provide a natural resist for watercolor? Experimenting with different methods to obtain accidental texture appeals to me. What happens when you pour liquid watercolor through objects placed on top the paper?

These experiments give me something to respond to and motivate me to continue experimenting with different painting techniques and compositions as I develop each painting intuitively. After the first experimental layer, I walk around the painted surface and look at it from different sides until I see something that I want to emphasize or see a shape that I want to develop. Sometimes a theme begins to present itself and I go with it. Making one change often strongly suggests the next.

Artist Bio: 
Recent Awards Honors Newsworthy Activity • Best In Show / Clinton Art Show 2007 / First Place 2008 • Woodruff’s Art Center Award / New England Watercolor Society Show in Cotuit 2008 • First Place in Post Road Abstract Show / Marlborough 2008 • Second Place / Duxbury Winter Juried Show 2009 • First Place For Watercolor in Marina Bay Arts Affair Show 2008 & 2010 • First Place In Weston Spring Awards Show 2010 & 2011 • Maxine Hegstead Award (Excellence in Watercolor) / WSA spring show 2012 • Awarded by George Nick in Concord Members Juried I (painting and sculpture) show 2013 • MJ1 award in Concord Arts Members Juried Show (Juror: Mary Tinti, Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum) 2015