Artist and art educator, Nancy Baur Dillen is Professor Emeritus of the Brevard Community College (BCC) Art Department. She attained her M.A. in Art Education and Constructive Design in 1971 at Florida State University. After graduation, Nancy moved to Melbourne, Florida, where she became an art instructor at BCC. She has been guest lecturer, exchange instructor, juror, and board member for the Florida Art Education Association.

Since the early 1990’s, Nancy has taught workshops during the summer at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, an affiliate of the University of Tennessee.

She is a founding member of Ten Women in Art, a group of highly regarded professional artists that has exhibited together throughout the southeast for over 20 years.

The intensity of color and contrast found in Nancy’s works reflect her single-mindedness. To her, art and teaching are one. Each challenges the other to see the world in a new light.

  

Biography • Artworks

Picture of Nancy



 

 

As an artist, Nancy has been intrigued with landscape and its relationship to the individual.

Symbolism of My Work: Over the past 30 years, my focus in art has been on painting the landscape.
I've painted it, as it exists in nature, played with creating imaginary, surreal landscapes by juxtaposing fruit and vegetables into real and ambiguous spaces, and most recently, used the whimsical qualities of animals within it.

In all of my work, I am intrigued with the relationships between landscape, color, and space. Finding a way to communicate this interest is a constant goal.

My aim is to merge imagery of the real and unreal, the romantic and the dramatic. Two concepts reflected in my work are the need to accept things as they are, and the need to dream. I compete with myself to find new and challenging solutions to the painted composition.

To view Nancy Dillen's website, click here.