Nancy Zacks

My art is the manifestation of a life-long habit of observation. I use color, shape, and line to record my impressions of the beauty and diversity of the natural world. My current work is based on daily visits to the fields and forests around my home in Medfield, MA and the observed lives of my companion animals.

“I grew up in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and spent my summers in the scientific community of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Julie Child, a neighbor and biological illustrator, sparked my early interest in biological illustration - the accurate representation of nature in the service of science. In college, I majored in Art and Biology with a focus on medical and biological illustration. A full-time job in research chart illustration brought me to Boston where I attended the Boston University Graduate Program in Scientific Communication. I moved to Providence, RI in 1994 and worked as a scientific and technical writer while taking art courses at The Rhode Island School of Design, the Rhode Island Watercolor Society, and The East Side Art Center, a community studio school. I retired from writing in 2019 in order to study drawing and painting full time.”