Nancy Bern Edwards Creative Art Workshops & Retreats
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Art Workshops with Nancy Edwards
Nancy Edwards art workshop Nancy Bern Edwards is an artist and a poet with a degree in Education. Vivid color and texture captivates Nancy because it shows a sense of fun and adventure. She enjoys expressing life and all its phases in her artwork and helping others do the same.
She has been trained in watercolor, Sumi-e, collage, oils, and clay. Her award winning art has been found in numerous juried art shows.
She has taught all ages from preschool through adults; including being an art instructor for K-6th grades and being selected as a visiting artist for the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. In Hawaii she was chosen as the Creative Arts Coordinator for a church based curriculum and was also an art specialist in a public school.  Previously she was an art coordinator for a community access program for individuals with disabilities in Pierce County.
Nancy Edwards artwork Art classes for adults, children, and parent-child combined are available in watercolors, acrylics and collage.

In Chinese Brush Painting (Sumi-e) we learn the simple techniques used for centuries in Japan and China. Learning first to paint bamboo; then painting a variety of other symbols of nature.

creative art workshops gardens In Sketch/Haiku class we learn to write simple Haiku poems in the 5-7-5 ancient Japanese custom and learn an easy technique for continuous line drawing where you sketch what you directly see. 

Painting the Psalms will involve reading various psalms and painting what you feel.
Nancy Edwards painting in the garden Many of the classes, weather permitting, can be plein-air in the gardens.

Art for the Healing Heart is great for people who need to heal from life’s ups and downs and medical difficulties.  Also good for those who are working through grief at the loss of a loved one.
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Process Painting is learning to listen to the still voice that is within you. Freely explore a room full of colors, papers and brushes being as innovative, free, meditative or serious as you wish.
 

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