The White Heron
 

Nancy Ping-Robbins

 

Artist Nancy Ping-Robbins has been showing her paintings in the Piedmont area of North Carolina since 2007, starting with a retrospective of sixty pieces at the Luna Bean Coffee Shop in Wilson. That show featured her North Carolina Woods in the Fall pieces as well as early ones from as far back as the sixties. Only in recent years has Ms. Ping-Robbins devoted any significant time to painting. She followed a career as a college music professor, painting only during vacations.

 

Now she often has pieces in the Harnett County Arts Council Gallery as well as the Wilson Arts Center where she was a featured artist in the Lowe Gallery in October 2009. Her paintings form part of the regular shows of the Fine Arts League of Cary, where she had a solo show (Views of North Carolina) at the BB&T/Mayfair Center lobby gallery. A regular exhibitor at the Visual Arts Exchange in Raleigh, she was juried in the VAE Unfettered show of 2009 as well s the juried Small Treasures show in 2009 at the Cary Gallery of Artists.

Six of her recent paintings are showing at The White Heron Art Gallery in Dunn, North Carolina. A few of her pieces can be seen on the White Heron website. Earlier this year, one of her paintings won Honorable Mention in the Wendell Animals in Art annual show. Her Snow Day won First Place in the Wilson County Fair. This early painting and others may be seen on the ArtsWe.com website. Click on Search for “N. Ping.”

 

Her solo show at the Harnett County Arts Council gallery in Lillington in May 2010, (Mountains to the Great Plains) featured 26 landscapes, large to small, imaginary and from real scenes.

"My interest in painting stems from a desire to share my feelings about an event, a person or type of person, an experience, or simply the beauty of our world. I want to portray what is special about my subject in an effort to share that feeling with others and to renew the experience for myself. I also enjoy creating new worlds through abstract art."