ABOUT THE ARTIST:

After retiring in 2000 from her position as an Eminent Scholar and Professor of English at Old Dominion University, Nancy Topping Bazin began to devote her life to art. She has studied drawing and painting with many outstanding teachers in the Hampton Roads area, the most influential of which were Melissa Berent, Rieneke Leenders, Suzanne Stevens, Nancy Dooley, and Norman Goodwin. To date, she has participated in fourteen week-long workshops with nationally-known artists--Christopher Schink, Fran Larsen, William Lawrence, Alex Powers, Carl Dalio, Frank Webb, Don Andrews, Carole Barnes, Margaret Martins, Gerald Brommer, Carrie Burns Brown, Carla O’Connor, and George James.

Having shown her work in various art centers and galleries in all five cities in Tidewater and in Williamsburg and Richmond, Nancy is now an Exhibiting Artist at the Artists Gallery located at 608 Norfolk Avenue in Virginia Beach; and she is one of the five Managing Artists at the Pembroke 4 Art Gallery on Broad Street just off Independence Blvd. Her works are continuously on display at both sites.

Nancy Topping Bazin also participates in the exhibits of the Tidewater Art Alliance, the Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists, the Virginia Flower and Garden Show, the Norfolk Senior Center, This Century Art Gallery, and the Hampton and Suffolk art leagues. She displays her work annually in the Colonial Place-Riverview Art Walk. Jurors have given her seventeen awards.

In addition to collage and mixed media, she works with watercolor, acrylic, pastel, gouache, oil, and charcoal.