Nancy Mona Russell is a contemporary abstract painter and native Californian, based near San Francisco. She completed her study in fine art painting in 1967. In the 59 years since, she has focused on colorful abstract impressionistic work that is both meditative and joyous.

 

Her acrylic paintings start with a charcoal drawing on a gesso surface. Sometimes this is a road map, and in others the drawing is only a departure. The surface, colors, and shapes take on a life of their own, a distillation of the experience of making the artwork.

 

Russell’s abstractions are of visual memories, or, rather than being something remembered, the work is a process of discovery.

Russell has exhibited widely throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Nelson Duni Gallery, the de Young Museum Open, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and the Berkeley Art Center.