Nan Weed

My drawings or paintings begin with an idea or image which is then acted upon in an intuitive manner. For instance, many of the landscape drawings have grown out of time spent in Northern New Mexico, and the Sirius series began when I started learning to recognize stars and constellations in the clear night sky. I am interested in both personal and collective mythology and how they intersect. My work explores the need to create and consider authentic relationships with all beings and to that end I draw upon my personal experience, travels, and the traditions of many mythologies of the world as source material.  I am inspired by the natural world, by what I read, music, loss of a person/animal/place, or by individual words. A long and ongoing series of graphite drawings called “Seeking Clarity-a meditation in graphite”, referred to as the columnars, developed from a discussion of the idea of fog as metaphor in a book a friend was writing. Almost anything can serve as inspiration.