Nancy Tankersley is a contemporary impressionist who began her career as a portraitist but entered the gallery scene with figurative paintings of people at work and at leisure. Tankersley moves between landscape, figures and still life. Active in the current plein air movement, and a founder of Plein Air Easton, she travels worldwide participating in competitions, judging and teaching. In 2018,2019 and 2020 she was invited to be an instructor and demonstrator at the Plein Air Convention in Santa Fe and released two instructional videos. In 2016 and 2017 she was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC.

She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, the American Society for Marine Art, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters and also holds memberships in the Washington Society for Landscape Painters and the Salmagundi Club. Founder and Director of the Easton Studio, a workshops facility begun in Easton in 2010, the artist mentors and teaches workshops and also sponsors workshops by nationally known painters.

Education

Miami University, Fine Art 1967-69

U. of Calif., Santa Cruz B.A. 1975

Numerous workshops with various artists including Ken Auster, Carolyn Anderson, Kim English, Quang Ho, Jon Redmond

Awards

2020 - Honorable Mention , American Impressionist Society Small Works Exhibit, Fredericksburg, Tx

2018 - Award of Excellence, American Impressionist Society National Annual Juried Exhibit

2018 - Bold Brush Award, June, Fine Arts Studio Online Competition

2018 - Best Architectural Painting, Easton Plein Air

2018- Best of Show, Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival, Nova Scotia

2017 - Life on the Farm Award, Plein Air Easton

2017 - Best of Show, Lighthouse Artcenter Plein Air Festival, Tequesta, Florida

2016 - Dickinson Signature Member Award, American Impressionist Society Annual Juried Exhibit

2016 - Best Painting by a Maryland Artist, Plein Air Easton

2016 - Plein Air Richmond, Honorable Mention

2015 - Oil Painters of America Eastern Exhibit, Award of Excellence

Recent Shows

2020 - American Society of Marine Artists 18th National Juried Exhibition

2019 - Waterfowl Festival, Featured Artist, Easton, MD

2019 - American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition

2018 - American Impressionist Society National Juried exhibition

2017 - American Impressionist Society Annual Exhibition

2016 - American Masters Exhibit, invitational fundraiser, Salmagundi Club, NYC

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Marine Artists, Signature Member

American Impressionist Society, Signature Member

Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters, Signature Member

Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

Washington Society of Landscape Painters, Washington, DC

Women Artists of the West

California Arts Club