Gwen Nagel

Gwen Nagel

Harrison, Maine & Athens, Georgia

Originally from the prairies of Minnesota, Gwen Nagel painted in oils as a teenager before beginning her formal study of art at the University of Minnesota. She switched majors, however, eventually earning a Ph.D. in English at Tufts University. She has published scholarly pieces on Hemingway, Styron, Anne Sexton, and the Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett. Gwen taught writing and American Literature at Harvard Business School, Tufts, Bentley College, and the University of Georgia. She lived in the Boston area for twenty years, but on moving to Athens, Georgia, in 1991 she began to rekindle her love of painting. Since June of 1997 she has devoted herself full time to her art.

An artist friend in Maine introduced her to pastels and plein air painting a few years ago, and since then she has studied pastels with master pastellist Albert Handell of Santa Fe and has taken workshops in oil and watercolor with many nationally known artists.

Gwen, a summer resident of Harrison, is a member of the Plein Air Painters of the South East (www.PAP-SE.com ) and the Plein Air Painters of Georgia, but she especially cherishes painting on location in the lakes region and on the coast with her Maine friends. Her work is in galleries in the south as well as in Maine: Gallery 302 in Bridgton; Camden Falls Gallery, Camden; and Priscilla Bond Gallery, Lovell. She welcomes commissions: portraits in watercolor and landscapes in both watercolor and pastel.

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