About the Artist

  Nancy Rhodes Harper grew up in a small town in the Ozark Mountains surrounded by paint and brushes in her fathers sign shop. She started painting at a very early age.  Continuing to study in school Nancy received a BA degree in Art Education from The University of Central Arkansas. After marriage, and completion of Nancy's husbands Phd.in Physics from Auburn University graduate school, the couple landed in Huntsville, Alabama. Nancy continued to paint and grow as an artist while working in interior design, sign painting and freelancing as an artist. After raising a son with the support of her husband and family Nancy decided to pursue painting full time.
 Nancy has studied with many of the finest artists in the world today, Quang Ho, Kim English, Ken Auster, Nancy Chaboun, Karin Jurick, Carol Marine, Anne Blair Brown,  The Cumberland Society Painters, Tim Horn, Kevin Beilfuss, Maggie Siner and Milt Kobayashi, Lisa Daria Kennedy and Gary Bodner. " My love of portraying people while they go about their daily lives and capturing a small moment in time is what keeps me excited as an artist. Using bold color, lush descriptive brushstrokes and very often whimsy I set about doing what I love, painting everyday! I have started painting exclusively what I call my "ladies".  Inspired by my studies with Milt Kobayashi at Scottsdale Artist School every year, I create whimsical women in everyday settings with exaggerated features  such as elongated hands, arms, unusual faces and long lean bodies with a lot of  wonderful color."
 Milt Kobayashi is my friend and mentor and I continue to study with him for two weeks every year, he is a great guy and shares everything he knows with his students. Many of us paint in a very similar manner which Milt condones. I am grateful for his friendship. Nancy Rhodes Harper's work is collected in many states across America and can be found in some of the very best fine art galleries in the United States., York and Friends Fine Art Gallery, Nashville Tn.,  In Detail Interiors 1514 North 9th Avenue Pensacola, FL 32503 • 850.437.0636