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Nancy Greskin is a painter who lives and works in Concord, Massachusetts.

She paints the people and things she is surrounded by on a daily basis.

Her family, friends, objects, patterns and interiors of her house.

Nancy has a PhD in art history and if that is not enough she's also a lawyer.

So we talk about her path to becoming a painter and what role those past experiences play in her work.

Earlier this year, Nancy's painting was included in an exhibition called Honoring The Legacy of David Park at Santa Clara University.

So Nancy and I talk about her process creating the piece that was in that show and what it was like to be juried into the exhibition.

Here is Nancy Greskin.

So Nancy, thank you so much for being on the savvy painter podcast. I really appreciate a chance to talk with you.

Oh, thanks very much. I appreciate the opportunity.

Can you tell me a little bit about when you started out as an artist?

Like, give me sort of a background story.

More specifically about when you decided that this was going to be your vocation and that you were going to do this for real I guess is what people say.

Yeah, I definitely had a very curvy path leading this way. I've always painted and drawn. I took you know our

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