In The Education of Little Me, established visual artist Nancy Hilliard Joyce, dives into her past to uncover the dynamics of growing up as a passionate artist raised by traditional yet creative parents. She reveals the decisions and the actions her parents took to reach a child solely motivated by passion rather than purpose. As she sorts through patterns of failures and successes, within both her education and formative years, this brings to light a balance of truth and intrinsic motivation which she finally uncovers as a young adult.
The Education of Little Me benefits parents struggling with children who demonstrate more passion than life purpose. It gives parents, educators, and students a new perspective and also provides real-life examples that positively affected and made indisputable differences in an overly passionate child's life, without smoldering the fire of creativity.
"Reflecting upon a lifetime of failures, I began to realize that with each disappointment there were even greater benefits. I, therefore, accepted that the only way to accelerate my learning and to reach my true potential was to continue taking calculated risks." - Nancy Hilliard Joyce
About the Author: Nancy Hilliard Joyce was born in Greenville, South Carolina. At the age of sixteen, she was accepted into the Governor's School for the Arts. For five years, she served on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and was an active member of the River Arts District Association in Asheville, NC. Today, Nancy is a board member of The Governor's School for the Arts Foundation, located in Greenville, South Carolina as well as The Cabarrus Arts Council Board located in Concord, North Carolina. She is the Art Curator for multiple boutique hotels and she regularly produces large-scale commission work. Nancy is passionate about giving back to the environment, women, and children in need and uses her art as a platform to raise money for charity and non-profit organizations.
Nancy's paintings are intricate in form and filled with layers of color, perspective, gestures, and expression. Her contemporary, mixed-media art is often created with modeling paste, a range of synthetic polymer paints, various handmade papers and detailed with touches of oil paint. She will sometimes sand or wipe down layers to reveal underlayers while building up other sections to create texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in just a day. Nancy's work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the United States in many homes, hotels, corporate offices, and airports. She is known as a contemporary, mixed- media artist with an Americana flair.
To view or collect Nancy's artwork, visit her website at NancyJoyceGallery.com or follow her page on Instagram or Facebook @NancyJoyceArt.
