"This painting of
elk depicts my favorite country (the northwest), favorite season
(fall), and favorite time of day (morning)...so, if a viewer feels the
energy of 'Morning', that's where it comes from...I could feel the
crackling air, and the sun beginning to melt frost while I painted, and
hope to have transferred these memories,(in a way that I cannot
explain, and am continually amazed at) into this painting. My
absolutely prime focus, as an artist, is on LIGHT and atmosphere, with,
barely second to that, a desire to bring the animals and people in my
paintings to vivid life, with particular interest in relationships and
interactions. I am also allowing myself the joy of looser brushwork,
especially in the background, and exciting three-dimensional textures
in the foreground, helping to set off the closer focus on the animals
and people who are at the heart of what I do. In the past 10 years I
have been trying many new things artistically, including learning to
paint with both left and right hands (not together!),and greatly
expanding my color palette. If I had to put myself within a statement,
it would be something like this: "This artist desires to bring light
and joy into people's lives, cultivating it first within herself, by
continually seeking excellence of expression."
- Nancy Glazier 
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