Nancy Horwick is an established Southern California artist and teacher. A former understudy of renowned British trompe l‘oeil painter Robert Walker, she has also worked through Kim Smith’s studio in Ojai, California. Horwick is a member of Ojai Art Center, SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting the Environment,) and the Buenaventura Art Association. Her award winning work has been exhibited in many venues and galleries, both public and private. Horwick sums up her artistic career with these words: “I am strongly influenced by 19th-century painters, in that I paint the objects, scenes, and people I find beautiful and compelling. There is sometimes too much emphasis today on the shocking or distorted. I am drawn to the classic old masters, as well as the elegance of twentieth-century painterly artists like David Leffel and Greg Kreutz. I am convinced that every person has a creative side, and try to help my students bring out 'the artist' in them. Life without art would be dreary indeed.”