About The Artist

Nancy Satin was born in New York City in 1944, the daughter of parents who owned a restaurant on Madison Avenue. She graduated from Hofstra University with a B.A. in English in February of 1965 and taught English at Long Beach High School until 1969. In 1974, Nancy moved to Swampscott MA, a seaside suburb north of Boston. She studied pottery there and became a professional potter in 1978, winning awards for her whimsical pottery, having solo shows, exhibiting at the Society of Arts & Crafts and being included in the Goodfellow Catalog of Wonderful Things in 1985. Life intruded, and she spent 8 years manufacturing women’s belts in her own company, Fashion Technologies. When Nancy returned to art, she explored stone carving, sculpture, drawing and then painting at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln MA for 10 years. She began her long association with the Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead MA in 1998, where Debra Freeman Highberger started teaching her how to paint in the spring of 1999. On November 29, 2011, a solo exhibition of 24 of her contemporary oil paintings opened in Palm Beach FL at John DeMedeiros on Worth Avenue. In March of 2012, a still life of hers was included in an exhibition at the Lynn Museum in Lynn MA to celebrate the 115th anniversary of the Museum and Historical Society. In October of 2013, 35 of her paintings were offered for sale in a Pop-up Gallery exhibition at Loft 227 in New York City. By then she had her own website, www.nancysatinart.com, where she continues to publish a blog about her paintings. In 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019, her work was included in the “Best of the Clubs” exhibits at the Lighthouse Art Center in Tequesta, FL. One of her tango paintings was featured in the juried exhibit of the Salem Arts Festival in June of 2018. Her painting “Rising” won the People’s Choice Award at the Marblehead Arts Festival that July. Since she first participated in their Figurative 2017 Online Art Exhibition, the Light Space & Time Online Gallery has presented her with eight Special Merit Awards and twenty-eight Special Recognition honors for her work in thirty-five of their online exhibitions. In July and August of 2020, her work was presented in the “Breakout” exhibition at M.A,D.S. Milano, an international digital gallery in Milan, Italy. In October of 2020, fulfilling a strong desire to try to repay the debt she felt she owed to her mentor, Debra Freeman Highberger, who gave her the gift of oil painting, she co-wrote and published PAINTING LESSONS | A Practical Approach to the Philosophy of Painting, a textbook teaching oil painting on Amazon and iBooks. Owning a condo in Palm Beach Gardens since 2005, she moved to Florida full-time at the end of 2018.