Instagram @NancyAdamsArt
Websites NancyAdamsArt.com theTinArmadillo.com
Education
1977-1981 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Fine Art Painting
1981-1983 Butera School of Art, Boston - Graphic Arts
Work Experience
1975-1980
Arts Festivals thruout New England while in High School to pay for my College education with tin sculptures and 3D stained glass pieces during the early EarthDay years.
1980-2002 …Boston, MA
While still in college and beyond, owner of Brooks Custom Paint, specializing in the unusual projects using my fine art experience for commercial and private purposes, all purposefully without the aid of computers. (Gold leaf reverse on glass, large billboard size building renderings, interior restaurant bartops, top shelf motorcycle and hotrods, artwork for musicians and radio stations, science museums, banks and a number of other businesses and organizations.) Painting on every surface possible from pool bottoms, motor homes, trains, planes, boats, double decker buses, walls, wood surfaces, glass and countless other materials with work that shipped nationally and internationally.
2002-2018 …Houston, TX
A choice to step off the painting treadmill and paint on a much smaller scale without the large overhead. Honing my traditional skills painting pet portraits and landscapes with acrylics and highly detail oriented work still in the hotrod and motorcycle industry.
2010-present …Houston, TX..Fairhope,AL…Sugarloaf Key, FL
Resurrected the tinwork because I felt the need to show that recycling is still just as important as 45+ years previous. Showed
in galleries and outdoor art festivals in Texas and as far south as Key West, including Key West Craft show for a number of years as TheTinArmadillo and demonstrating to children in elementary schools all over Texas the importance of recycling in return for the cafeteria's tin cans.
2021…Sugarloaf Key, FL
TheTinArmadillo.com, Innova Arts, Mobile, AL, Guild Hall Gallery, Key West Art Center, Key West, FL
Finally landing in our permanent home, painting with acrylic and combining the skills I've spent a lifetime learning. Still working with the tinwork, but truly settling in with my love of color and painting the imagery surrounding my long time relationship with the Florida Keys. My goal is to combine the metalwork with my painting, which I have done on occasion, but until I’m happy with how they combine consistently I mostly work separately with each medium enjoying the creative contrast between the two.
As a recent Anne McKee Grant recipient, my current artwork consists of painting the amazing color combinations in land, sky and waterscapes that only the Keys environment seems to offer. I am traveling from one end of the Keys to the other, recording the wildlife and waterways off the beaten path as well as the iconic oddities and attractions that make this island chain the diverse entity I have always believed it is. Included in this study is the use of my recycled tin to create whimsical sculptures inspired by those that inhabit the keys. Also Included in the group of art pieces will be combined paintings with tin and found objects recovered while traversing the islands. My goal is to show how this fantastic place can embrace the rough with the refined. That even though we try to build UP we a know that nature will always win to rule the roost.
