{"id":81915,"date":"2025-07-30T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=81915"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:56:53","slug":"cover-artist-nan-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-nan-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Cover Artist:<\/strong> Nan Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81957\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81957\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-The-Moon-Watches-Over-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"922\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moon Watches Over. Nan Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>A calling to art as a life path did not come early to Nan Davis. \u201cFrankly,\u201d she says, \u201cit has been a long and winding road. A career was something practical like teaching or nursing and I was not interested in that. I did not have an artist model in my life. I always just made art\u2014no greater reason than because it was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81953\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81953\" class=\"wp-image-81953\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy-810x1081.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Contemplation-Final-Orig20x40-Sharpened-copy-1140x1521.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contemplation. Nan Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She grew up in Greenville, SC, where she was always working on an art or craft project. When she was in college at Georgia State University, someone gave her a nudge in the right direction. \u201cA wonderful, perceptive friend saw something in me and asked me to create two large important projects for him,\u201d Davis says. \u201cJust out of the blue, he handed me these art projects that had nothing to do with anything I had ever done, and he had complete confidence that I could do them. No micromanaging, just told me the scope of the projects and then he left it alone and let me figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this time, she was in the last years at the university and needed to declare a major. \u201cI could not get interested in one of the \u2018practical\u2019 choices, so I declared Fine Art as my major,\u201d she says. Though she admits she still had no idea how art would lead to a lucrative career, she began to work at it while still living in Atlanta. When a divorce put \u201csurvival\u201d at the forefront of her mind, she worked on projects for interior designers and did some graphic design projects. \u201cThe studio I had then was fabulous,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a very large classroom in an old school building. It was there that I was introduced to other artists in various mediums who were really focused on art as their lifestyle and income. I was Level 101 then, but I had been bitten by the bug to create.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81951\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81951\" class=\"wp-image-81951\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2-810x643.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-BLackbird-Singing-copy-2-1140x905.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackbird Singing. Nan Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then, having decided to leave Atlanta, she sought a place in which to settle and create. She drove through Western North Carolina, stopping in small towns and calling companies about jobs. Her search ended when she reached Asheville and found a secure job that allowed her to purchase a home. She had a plan. \u201cI worked my day job, and at night and on the weekends I created,\u201d she says. \u201cI tried all kinds of things, all mediums; my ideas and focus were scattered, but it was all in preparation for the day that I would be able to create art full-time. I had small shows of my work at my home; I had a show in a lawyer\u2019s office, at friend\u2019s homes, at Asheville School. Time flies, and 25 years after I started my day job, I left and moved into NorthLight Studios in the River Arts District. I was in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81958\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81958\" class=\"wp-image-81958\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2-810x1080.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Wisdom-of-the-Woods-copy-2-1140x1520.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wisdom of the Woods. Nan Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As it turned out, Asheville was the perfect place of inspiration for her paintings. \u201cOver the years what I have found about myself is that I respond greatly to color and to the WNC mountains and trails,\u201d Davis says. \u201cTrails full of trees and foliage and light streaming through. Water from ponds and lakes and rivers. And color\u2014that is extremely important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She sees her art as her own interpretation of the beauty before her, and, thus, her color palette is often not the typical hues associated with nature. \u201cColor is joy, and that is what I feel when I am putting beautiful colors together,\u201d she says. \u201cMy desire is to use the landscape as a familiar base to give the viewer a hint of the subject and then let the color and texture and all the scrapes and scratches made from the knives pull them in to look again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow artist Ann Litrel was Davis\u2019 studio mate in Decatur, GA, and remains a friend. \u201cNan launches into every canvas like it\u2019s an adventure,\u201d Litrel says, \u201cwith whatever tool she has at hand\u2014brush, fingers, cloth, palette knife. What emerges in each painting is a beautifully textured world that is unmistakably hers, a place where trees and water and mountains dissolve into radiant light and color. I find myself compelled to return again and again to be in that world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81952\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81952\" class=\"wp-image-81952\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2-810x608.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover-Artist-Nan-Davis-Blue-Trees-copy-2-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Trees. Nan Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Davis still explores, taking chances with techniques and finding new ways of expressing herself on canvas. \u201cI am excited when a painting is purchased and the client sends me a photo of it on a wall in their home,\u201d Davis says. \u201cThey are excited, it is meaningful to them and I am a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During COVID, she found herself frustrated and wanting to take it out on a 4\u2019 x 5\u2019 canvas she had. \u201cI decided that I would paint completely freely, without thinking about any end results\u2014because at that point we did not know what was going to be happening,\u201d Davis says. \u201cIt was a happy experience for me and I love the results.\u201d That painting became <em>Blackbird Singing<\/em>, and she realized that she had developed an attachment to it. \u201cI had been talking to my dear friend about this, telling her I knew it would sell and I needed the money, but that I didn\u2019t want to sell it. A couple of weeks later she called and said she had decided that she would buy it. I was happy that it would have a good home, but really feeling that I did not want to let it go. She paid me for the painting, and then told me she was giving it to me for my birthday! I have that painting in my home in a very prominent place and I love it and love the generosity of my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/NanDavisArt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NanDavisArt.com<\/a>, and follow on <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/NanDavisArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/NanDavisArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> @NanDavisArt. Nan Davis\u2019 work is featured regionally at NorthLight Studios, 357 Depot Street, in Asheville\u2019s River Arts District, and in Brevard at The Lucy Clark Gallery, 51 West Main Street.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A calling to art as a life path did not come early to Nan Davis. \u201cFrankly,\u201d she says, \u201cit has been a long and winding road. 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