Nannette Schweig Hoffman
About Nannette
Nannette was a fine artist, teacher and poet, who passed away on December 9, 2010 at the age of 81, after a struggle with Alzheimer's. She was a native of New York City and had lived in the D.C area for 40 years before moving to Virginia in 2002. Nannette received her B.A from Hofstra University, her M.A in English from Georgetown University, and was a Master Copyist of Fine Art at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. She loved children and had one son, two daughters and four grandchildren. It was Nannette’s passion to inspire others to nourish their creative spirits, and she spent much of her life doing just that. Nannette published two books of poems and drawings with Ellicott Press: The Palette and the Pen (1992) and The Image and the Leaf (2001). Proceeds from the sales of Nannette's artwork will be donated to The Alzheimer's Foundation of America. |
Nannette's ArtworkOil paintings on canvass
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The Artist on Creativity...
Until we have stripped ourselves down—very much like stripping furniture that has been painted—one will never know what the wood grain beneath the paint is like. And so it is with our creative natures: we don’t know exactly what we’ll find there, underneath all of our fears and doubts, until we start scrapping away at them. There is tremendous excitement in the beginning, at least, to look.
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