Nancy Andruk Olson has been a lifetime painter. She started painting as a child with my mother, who is an art teacher, and never really stopped. She attended Art Center College of Design as a high school student and has a BFA in painting from BYU where she spent most of her time working with Bruce Hixson Smith. She also has a post- baccalaureate certificate from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She paints quickly and directly using a lot of impressionist techniques. She likes the improvisation and the interaction of the paint. The interplay of the materials and the intensity of the color are part of the language for her. She makes a lot of her own paint to ensure the intensity of the pigment is as high as possible. She is inspired by other artists who focus on color to capture memories such as Pierre Bonnard, Wolf Kahn, Inka Essenhigh and John McCallister. She is currently the Artist in Residence at the Bountiful Davis Art Center.
