Nancy Fitz-Rapalje

American, b. 1941 Springfield, MA, based in Bellows Falls, VT

Artist’s Statement

Artist’s Statement

As an artist I have no statement except my paintings. Light bounces off of them and enters your eyes. Now it is your turn. Don't ask - look.

If you like them - good.

If not - no matter.

The painting, being itself, has done its work either way.

I think of my small paintings as 'companions' rather that an artistic 'statement'. I hope they may exist with generations of a family living around them. I imagine my tulips or peaches being quiet observers of different lives performed in their space. I consider it theater in two directions - observer to painting and painting to observer.

Biography

Nancy Fitz-Rapalje’s work offers us an intimate view of the solo life of a dedicated oil painter.  Her work is of the objects which she sees as everyday, and is driven not by the subjects of her paintings, but by the work itself.  Fitz-Rapalje’s work is done with a certainty and grace gained only by experience, practice, and the demands of making the difficult decisions in life.

It is in the execution of Fitz-Rapalje’s work where we find that we are being presented with more than a depiction of objects in her studio.  We are witness to a monologue on the compulsion of an artist to paint, and the freedom found in the everyday when creation flows so intentionally.

Canal Street Art Gallery

23 Canal Street, Bellows Falls, Vermont