About

Nancy Wightman is an oil painter and a printmaker. Though largely self-taught, Wightman has studied painting and printmaking at the AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, including printmaking courses with Jose Clemente Orozco III and Brian D. Cohen. 

Wightman has exhibited her work with artist members of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in their studio gallery and at the Vermont Council on the Arts, Montpelier, Vermont; and in New Hampshire at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon; The Fells, John Hay Estate, Newbury; Kimball Union Academy, Meriden; and at the AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon. Her work was included in the 2006 New Hampshire Prints of the Year at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord. 

Wightman is a founding artist member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. She served on the Portfolio 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2011 Committees.

Artist Statement

Inspired by the natural world and informed by the news, my paintings and prints move between figurative and narrative as my understanding of the various symbols representing our world, collide. These images are born from my daily life (images in the newspaper or internet), experiences from walking through the natural world (the incredible diversity in bird morphology or tree structure), or conjured from my surreal dreams at night. Our world is a mixture of great natural beauty and cultural inequity.  My artworks celebrate and question our contemporary moment.